Haroon's devlog
Occasional news and views on international development
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
the end of the peasantry?
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I have spent most of my professional life working in an area that, within the political economy of international development, is called ...
Friday, March 9, 2007
institutions for international development studies
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I am now a few hours from finishing my Gender and Economic Policy Analysis teaching at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, ...
Thursday, March 8, 2007
why don't development economists learn?
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I have been, these past few days, teaching a short course at my old workplace, the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, on Gender and M...
Sunday, March 4, 2007
microfinance and the mystery of capital
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I was struck in a student seminar this week when we were talking about microfinance. I was discussing the underlying assumption, noted in a...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Shanghai surprise
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Yesterday the Shanghai stock exchange dropped 9 per cent in a single day, apparently setting off a worldwide round of selling as panicked in...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
slow food
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I went to a very interesting event yesterday, organized by Slow Food Toronto, which sought to bring together slow food practitioners in the ...
Friday, February 23, 2007
new times for the agrarian question?
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I was very pleased this morning to walk into my local Indigo! bookstore and see, on the shelves, half a dozen copies of Promised Land: Compe...
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