Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Sortie d’animation avec la Bibliothèque Mobile Pénélope à l’école B de Houndé
- Ghana librarians do a group reading session
- Organisation d’une séance de mots croisés et d’une séance de dessin à la bibliothèque de Karaba
- Appréciations des livres CMH par professeurs du CEG de Maro
- Animation d’une séance de lecture guidée à la bibliothèque de Karaba
- Animation de l’animateur de ABVBF à la bibliothèque de Béréba, Burkina Faso
- Encouragement des élèves de l’école Sainte Thérèse de Houndé à la lecture
- Organisation d’une séance de lecture à voix haute à la bibliothèque de Koho
- Visite du coordonnateur et de l’animateur de ABVBF à la bibliothèque Lumière pour enfants à Houndé
- Une sortie d’animation de la BMP à l’école E de Houndé
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John Cochrane thinks the administrative state silences speech… I think there is a bigger danger from Donald Trump
I was listening to John Cochrane, now at Hoover Institute, giving an EconTalk Podcast with Russ Roberts. One of the main problems with the over-regulatory administrative state that the United States is becoming, according to Cochrane, is that “the rules” … Continue reading
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Clear statement about why Brexit matters for the United Kingdom
More than anything, though, the precipitous drop [in the pound] seemed to attest to an increasingly unmistakable reality: Britain’s vote to exit the European Union — Brexit, in common parlance — has put its commercial relationships with the world on … Continue reading
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Friday music: Kurt Wagner of Lambchop on drugs
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Helping farmers to grow new crops for export in Kenya: Lessons from failure?
For my African Economic Development class we are reading a paper that uses the randomized control trial methodology to evaluate a program to encourage farmers to produce crops for export. The presumption is that new crops like french beans, passion … Continue reading
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Best music for driving at night on H 5 Los Angeles to San Jose: Bon Iver 22 (OVER S∞∞N)
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Dounko shared this picture… kids in the library reading Où est ma poule, book I did with Ezequiel Olvera…
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African real per capita income over time, compared with countries of southeast Africa
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The Hamar in southern Ethiopia
I am teaching African Economic Development this quarter, and I like to have students watch films and read novels to get a more humanistic understanding of the people behind the numbers. If you have never spent any time in any … Continue reading
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On Voix d’Amerique (VOA- Afrique) français today
Gaby Dorcil called, and who can resist his voice, to ask me to speak on the OPEC decision to limit production and effectuate an increase in oil prices. Volontiers, of course, though I cringe when I hear my American-inflected French. … Continue reading
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Constitutional conference in Burkina Faso
Alpha Blondy was also in Ouagadougou meeting with the President. Opération coup de poing banned in the new constitution? Le président burkinabè Roch Marc Christian Kaboré a installé jeudi à Ouagadougou les membres d’une Commission constitutionnelle qui doivent produire dans … Continue reading
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One of the strangest stories of West Africa: Yacouba Isaac Zida se fait discret
Very similar to ATT’s disappearance after the Mali coup d’état. Hard to even get a handle on how an important public personality can suddenly turn everything off. Is he reading a French translation of Trollope’s The Way We Live Now? … Continue reading
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Randomized control trials and participant responses to treatment probabilities
As more and more development economists conduct randomized control trials (RCT), rather than inferring the answer to an economics question from observational data, some researchers are drawing attention to unmentioned assumptions underlying interpretations of RCT results. One such implicit assumption … Continue reading
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Sango Malo by Bassek ba Kobhio
Spoilers in this review. Sango Malo by Bassek ba Kobhio is one of my favorite films from Africa to use for introducing African economic development issues. The film was released in the heady days of 1991 when a new generation … Continue reading
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Fairly recent viewing on Netflix
Look Who’s Back – Excellent first hour, as Hitler suddenly reappears in contemporary Germany. It grinds on as commentary on the media. Victoria – Two hour film, all one take, of a robbery gone awry. Technically it is wonderful to … Continue reading
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Micro-biotics in Burkina Faso
Thanks Andrew Passet for the link! A 2010 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences compared the microbiots of children living in rural Burkina Faso in West Africa to the microbiots of urban, city-dwelling children in Italy. … Continue reading
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Did a FAVL librarian just challenge my French Scrabble word?
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Rencontre des bibliothécaires a Béréba dans le Tuy
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Puerto Rico’s fiscal oversight board named
I kept waiting for the call, but someone must have told them my expertise was rural libraries in Burkina Faso, not really the skill-set needed? The White House said it had chosen seven experts in finance and the law to … Continue reading
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All the way to Ouagadougou to participate in meetings!
They are good meetings…. but still. From 8am-2pm working with Dounko, our FAVL director here in Burkina, covering all the issues, planning, and budgeting. Then 3pm-5pm excellent meeting with our partner team at Catholic Relief Services over in Gounghin. Great … Continue reading
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Pre-Ouagadougou culture
I arrived here last night, but so far all I have done for one day is talk about FAVL for about eight straight hours, and that is pretty boring for you blog readers, so instead I will give brief report … Continue reading
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Michael Kevane 