Today in Broadstreet, Mark Dincecco and Yuhua Wang discuss "State Capacity in Historical Political Economy: What, How, Why, and Why Not?" broadstreet.blog/2022/05/02/sta…

🐉Thank you Zomba City Festival !! The vibe was right… one for the books 🙏🏿

We continue to applaud the work done by Prof Kamija Phiri, his collaborators and the entire research team for achieving this landmark in preventive treatment for malaria. #PoweredByTRUE

Majority of Angolans say physical disciplining of children occurs frequently in their communities, Afrobarometer survey shows bit.ly/3y86xyD. #VoicesAfrica #Angola #ChildWelfare

Part of UN/WHO work group on COVID mortality, webinar on sampling strategies for mortality-related surveys next Tuesday. Includes overview of sampling in DHS/MICS followed by panel w/ Jeff Eaton & experts from UNStats, @MSG & Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS). Register here: forms.office.com/pages/response…

Sometimes it’s not you, it’s them 🙄😂😭 #academia

My new book - How First-wave democracies ended electoral corruption - has now a cover. Thank you Princeton University Press for the beautiful design! press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

Celebrating peace, unity and freedom. Happy 58th Independence Anniversary. #IndependenceDay

We conducted a refresher training for the Malawi Education Sector Improvement Project (MESIP) phase 3E. MESIP is a @WorldBank funded project, which aims at improving infrastructure, quality of education in primary schools as well as efficient delivery.

Pleased to share our latest paper published today in Nature Communications Nature Communications. Stephen Bentley Wellcome Sanger Institute Amsterdam UMC UvA Amsterdam Yale School of Public Health Wellcome nature.com/articles/s4146…

What did Acemoglu get Wrong? Is democracy really good for growth? Have you changed your mind about religion? Are institutions endogenous? With climate breakdown, will you become more of a geographical determinist? Were you right on China? 🎙️ podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/76fLUV…

Happy to see our World Development article on #campaign appeals and vote buying published. We find evidence that suggests voters respond positively to candidates who challenge vote-buying. Important implications for election specialists. Look forward to reactions @li63ra

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I am very excited to share that I have been selected as the Rhodes Scholar-Elect (2023) for the Southern Africa (BLMNS) region. I will be returning to the University of Oxford for my DPhil next October; after just completing my MSc in Integrated Immunology this month. Thread 1/3

Pilot for EGAP’s metaketa V as a way of preparing for data collection is being conducted. Enumeratos have been sent to the field to test how the tools are working and how the data is being captured Amanda Lea Robinson, @abclayton24, EGAP, kim yi dionne (@dadakim.bsky.social), Happy Kayuni, Gowo

Congratulations Dr @sabrina_white1 on passing her viva 🎉 Richly deserved! Her excellent thesis is already having impact &makes an important contribution to knowledge on UN’s response to sexual exploitation &abuse in peacekeeping @POLISatLeeds