There's a version of comment on this which is pretty close to 'academic research is useless, what's useful is summaries of academic research', and WHAT DO YOU THINK GOES INTO THE SUMMARIES?

Exciting that there's a draft US bill to compensate kidney donors - we should steal this idea in the UK (and everywhere). The NHS spends £6.4 billion per year on kidney disease - we could save money and improve lives by paying donors.

link.vox.com/view/608adc939…

Why does the US department of defense run so many international education projects?

'From Fiscal Year 2019 through Fiscal Year 2023, DoD [Defense] executed 588 education projects in 72 countries, totaling approximately $98.1 million.'

usaid.gov/sites/default/…

Surely its time to end the rail privatisation experiment?

New Center for Global Development blog with Thi Le & Kehinde Ajayi:

Gains made in gender equality and girls education are precarious.

Reversing the Ban on Female Genital Mutilation in The Gambia Should Be An Alarm Bell for Girls’ Education and Gender Equality Globally

cgdev.org/blog/reversing…

Turns out you can pay for maxing out the aid budget increase through wealth taxes alone

Lead thread! 🧵

Music to our ears - read more about why this is so important in this Center for Global Development post by Lee Crawfurd Justin Sandefur Rachel Silverman Bonnifield and me

cgdev.org/blog/time-get-…

You love to see it Matthew Yglesias Kevin Kelly

recomendo.com/p/pampamone-bi…

34% of adolescents in Cape Town have been beaten.

Abuse hurts their cognitive development.

We also know that it perpetuates a cycle of violence.

I don’t know what the solution is, but this is a known cause of future harm

link.springer.com/article/10.100… cc David Evans

1 in 3 Liberian women has experienced 'early sexual activity that qualifies as statutory rape'.

40% of the male assailants work in schools

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Despite heroic efforts by Mitchell to make improvements, it remains an abject scandal that over half of British foreign aid is spent in the UK