Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Daytime session at Sherigu Community Library
- La deuxième journée des activités de café littéraire à la bibliothèque de Boni
- Échanges avec la nouvelle gérante de la bibliothèque de Koho
- Reprise des activités de la bibliothèque mobile Pénélope
- Sortie de la Bibliothèque Mobile Pénélope à l’école Sainte Thérèse
- Bonne nouvelle pour les amoureux de la lecture à Niankorodougou
- Bibliothèque communautaire de Zimtenga ! Les livres attendent patiemment le retour des communautés
- Bilan des activités du mois d’août de la bibliothèque de Bougounam
- Bilan des premières journées du café littéraire
- Nyariga community library, daytime activities
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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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J.L Carr’s A Month in the Country
Bill already gave this short novel by J.L. Carr the perfect short review, so there is not much I can add. Makes you want to learn the names of plants and also become an art restorer, in your spare time. … Continue reading
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Whatsoever you do, to the “at least as successful as you,” so you shall do unto me?
“We’ve shown that over time, evolution favors strategies to help those who are at least as successful as themselves.” In their study, the team used computer modelling to run hundreds of thousands of simulations, or ‘donation games’, to unravel the … Continue reading
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Burkina Faso tries to raise revenue
$17m in new taxes on housing and imported vehicles, and raising taxes on beer and other beverages, and on lottery winnings. Il est attendu des mesures fiscales annoncées, qu’elles contribuent à l’augmentation des recettes fiscales. Globalement elles devraient contribuer à … Continue reading
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Best post Econ 3402 reading ever!
Bernanke covers practically every topic covered in my summer Macroeconomics class. Great summary discussion! Thanks Vic Chia for the pointer. Estimates of potential output growth (y*) have declined primarily for two reasons. First, potential growth depends importantly on the pace … Continue reading
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Bank of England thinks impact of Brexit is pretty bad
The short-term impact [of Brexit], however, has been largely negative. In the weeks since the vote, the pound has fallen sharply, and stocks in a number of sectors, including banking and construction, have been under pressure. Several real estate funds … Continue reading
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