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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Using quotes in local and global macros in Stata
For some reason I spent a lot of time yesterday doing this: turn a list of variables into a list with doublequotes for each variable, then separated by commas. I confess I still do not really understand the logic of … Continue reading
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Coding Stata and listening to The Format, On the Porch, over and over…
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How do néré and karité trees change sorghum yields in Burkina Faso?
A nice study reminding agricultural experts to be modest about what is known and unknown about complex cropping systems in West Africa. Parkia biglobosa and Vitellaria paradoxa are known to improve soil fertility and redistribute water under their crowns in … Continue reading
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Bruno Jaffré thinks the situation in Burkina Faso is getting serious
Bruno Jaffré writes: L’ambiance est délétère et plus la crise s’approfondit plus la colère gronde. Alors qu’il suffirait que Blaise Compaoré respecte la constitution, comme il a juré de le faire, par le passé, qu’il accepte d’organiser les élections sans … Continue reading
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Mali struggles to filter passengers from Ebola-hit Guinea
I had been wondering about how the border is being controlled. Reuters gives us the info. HT: Penelope Hartnell At a Mali border post in Kouremale about 130 km 80 miles south of the capital Bamako, five health workers stand … Continue reading
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Nathan Englander Reads John Cheever
I listen to The New Yorker fiction podcasts once a month on a long run. Generally they are wonderful. This month’s was less compelling. While Cheever was prescient about the pitfalls of an over-sharing culture, and his sentences are compelling … Continue reading
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Life experience and ebola
I was struck by this quote: Ms. Monaco and other administration officials said the government has been planning for months for the possibility that the virus might be brought to the United States by someone from Africa. And yet somehow, … Continue reading
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AIG Bailout trial underway
The first witness called by Boies, Scott Alvarez, the general counsel of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, testified about the credit terms extended by the government to financial institutions earlier in 2008 and about the terms offered to AIG.Under … Continue reading
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Interesting controversy over managing government debt and interest rates, Fed vs Treasury
The Fed has sought to stimulate the economy by purchasing large quantities of long-term Treasury securities. The campaign, which is scheduled to end in October, aims to force investors to buy other kinds of debt and, in the face of … Continue reading
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Two films about the rotten core of capitalism ….
The first is The Jewel, an Italian movie based on the 2003 $20 billion Parmalat bankruptcy, still apparently Europe’s biggest bankruptcy. The second in Capital, a French movie by Costa-Gavras, loosely based on the shenanigans leading up to the 2008 … Continue reading
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Good and bad news from the dialogue opposition-CDP in Burkina Faso
The good news is that the talks are officially comprehensive. The bad news is no date for next meeting. How about tomorrow? « Premièrement, la question de la révision de l’article 37 de la Constitution, deuxièmement, la question de l’installation … Continue reading
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Did the New York Fed bail out Goldman Sachs via AIG?
The Starr case is starting tomorrow, and hopefully will extract and make public important testimony and evidence. Former Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, who orchestrated the bailout from his previous perch as New York Fed president, insists that extracting these … Continue reading
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What have I been reading…
Alexandra Williams, youth librarian in Alice Springs, Australia, recommended The Slap, by Christos Tsiolkas. Definitely for a mature young adult, it is an honest and searing portrait of Australian society… well, I am about halfway through. Told from multiple points … Continue reading
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Youth culture in West Africa… whatever… Kiff No Beat – Tu Es Dans Pain
The video has value as a “text” to read sociologically, maybe? It’s so humorless, it’s almost funny. The gang signs, the baseball shirts, the young women walking around as props… and at the same time the indelible West African milieu. … Continue reading
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Will the world ever run out of good-humored crime TV shows?
When I was growing up, Petrocelli, Magnum PI, Cannon and Kojak were once a week staples. Now my daughter, along with the entire 6th grade of my daughter’s school, is watching Psych. I had never heard of it. I bet … Continue reading
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Bénéwendé Sankara talks about the Sankarist parties in Burkina Faso
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Pretty deep psychology here… worth a read, and some thought
I think back to the tailgate: the man blowing cigar smoke in my face, the man who mockingly yelled, “Thanks for letting us use your name!”, the group who yelled at us to “go the fuck home,” the little waif … Continue reading
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Modeling the psychological costs of inflation… just talking about this in macro class!
People dislike inflation. Shiller[1996] provides survey evidence that the public are greatly concerned about inflation and feel strong antipathy towards it. Inflation distresses people because they fear that rising prices will outpace wages. It also angers people because they feel … Continue reading
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Regulating banks… the capture of the Federal Reserve
This does not surprise me at all. Too many institutions develop cultures of “do not ask embarrassing questions in public” and then define every opportunity to ask a question as a public occasion, and so no questions are ever asked. … Continue reading
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“Schooled”? I had somehow missed the blogosphere discussion of this study of cowpea varieties in Tanzania
The paper was published in AJAE earlier this year. Abstract of paper: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the social sciences are typically not double-blind, so participants know they are “treated” and will adjust their behavior accordingly. Such effort responses complicate … Continue reading
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Michael Kevane 