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Jennifer Lentfer's Blog – May 2011 Archive (2)
RCTs: A band-aid on a deeper issue?
I finished the book weeks ago. When I closed Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel’s “More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty,” I had many notes and reactions jotted down but they hadn’t yet gelled. Something just didn’t sit quite right with me and I was having trouble articulating it.
Of course that’s related to… Continue
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Added by Jennifer Lentfer on May 25, 2011 at 4:34am — 6 Comments
Barefoot in Church
In the midst of media blitzes such as the current one, I long for something real and human more than ever. The following story from the “Readers Write” section of The Sun Magazine, fit the bill for me yesterday. And I was delighted to come across this poignant personal story from its pages on the experience of being at the receiving end of help. It offers… Continue
Added by Jennifer Lentfer on May 4, 2011 at 1:30am — 2 Comments
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