Simply the best economic development blog

I have been following Chris Blattman's blog for a while and I am just incredibly impressed by how good it has become. It focuses on Africa--but not exclusively--and contains the most intelligent and timely commentary on economic development around.  I just felt I ought to say it.  And no, Chris has not asked for a plug.

Just reassure me Chris that you are not doing this in lieu of working on your journal articles...

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[Chris]

What journal articles...?

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Chris' is good, but this one is my favorite!

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[henry]

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[seth]

I agree with Dani, great work Chris! I'm thinking of ways I can get my Development Econ students to read and think about your posts next semester. So hope you keep up your pace.

If as Chris and Freakonomics pointed out last week, that policy makers ignore development economist works, then perhaps we should be blogging in lieu of some journal articles.

Journal article should be included in a tenure portfolio, but I would like to see economists/universities figure a way to give weight to blogs. This might mean some sort of structure for reviewing blogs, along the lines of peer-review.

In some sense this could be through hit counts (but then we may reward comment spaming like the above comments), but I think all our blogs could be improved by some method of feedback and review similar to those at journals.

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