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It was a great privilege to contribute a chapter, with the brilliant Dan Honig (DanHonig.bsky), to this new Elgar Handbook of Aid and Development. Our piece is titled “Managing Aid Personnel.” Summary 🧵here; link at end. (1/n)

Nice summary of “Managing Aid Personnel”, one of the chapters in the Handbook of Aid and Development e-elgar.com/shop/usd/handb…. In the coming weeks, we will be making more chapters available on the Elgar Politics platform.

.Lant Pritchett’s provocative chapter in the Elgar Politics Handbook of Aid and Development, “Development happened. Did aid help?” is available in pdf: doi.org/10.4337/978180…

I’m looking forward to speaking about how accountability can achieve inclusive growth in Sri Lanka at this Verité Research and BALPP Sri Lanka event on July 16 at 4:30 pm. Register here forms.gle/ECEQk7i3UPzSwn…

Hard-hitting post by Jishnu Das "Measurement Error: The Edupreneur’s snake oil" linkedin.com/pulse/measurem… on LinkedIn

Why is aid given? Read Steve Radelet’s chapter elgaronline.com/edcollchap/boo… in the Handbook on Aid and Development Elgar Politics bit.ly/3xlllh4

Why is aid received? Read Samuel Wangwe’s chapter elgaronline.com/edcollchap/boo… in the Handbook on Aid and Development Elgar Politics

What are the latest trend and challenges in aid flows? Read Sarah Blodgett Bermeo’s chapter elgaronline.com/edcollchap/boo… in the Handbook on Aid and Development Elgar Politics

In India, the fiscal cost of teacher absenteeism is about $1.5 billion/year sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Karthik Muralidharan

India’s budget increased by $5 billion/year to hire more teachers; monitoring teachers to reduce absenteeism would be 10x more cost-effective.

Aid to Africa demonstrates hysteresis and possibly addiction, Célestin Monga and Bouba Housseni show in their chapter elgaronline.com/edcollchap/boo… in the Handbook of Aid and Development elgaronline.com/edcollbook/boo… Elgar Politics

Despite aid dependence, African countries have maintained policy autonomy because of multiple motivations for aid and domestic politics in donor countries, argues Ken Opalo in his chapter in the Handbook on Aid and Development elgaronline.com/edcollbook/boo…

The tension between giving aid and curbing corruption was exacerbated during the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to new ways of balancing the two, David-Barrett and d'Emidio argue in their chapter in the Handbook of Aid and Development elgaronline.com/edcollchap/boo… Elgar Politics

📢 Handbook of Aid and Development Edited by Raj M. Desai (Georgetown SFS), Shantayanan Devarajan (Shanta Devarajan) and Jennifer L. Tobin (Jennifer Tobin) More info ➡️ e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/9781… 🆓 Read the intro ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/978180… #aid #development #policy #data

My Elgar Publishing Handbook of Aid and Development chapter on "Recipient Governments and Aid Flows" is available for FREE download for the next month. This is also true of a set of neighboring chapters on similar themes written by excellent people. Link: elgaronline.com/edcollbook/boo…

Many chapters in the Handbook of Aid and Development are free for the next month. I think these are great teaching resources, or good to quickly get up to date on various research areas you may have fallen behind on. elgaronline.com/edcollbook/boo…