By now you know all about this, but just in case you don’t, here is a link you could read. If you, however, do not like links and don’t look up things on the net that you read about – then here is a summary: There is a meme going around Facebook. A...

Ideally I would never like to think about 2009 again. In all respects it was a terrible year. Here is what I learnt from 2009 — for whatever it is worth: 1. Getting fired – I learnt that intelligence does not guarantee that you keep a job. To make...

Development intervention evaluations are lousy for a bunch of reasons. Organizations tend to overestimate their ‘impact’ – because they forget that their results are valid only for the population they track across time. They forget that ‘impact’ is...