So it’s time to unveil the thing I’ve been working on for the last few months. In Development Magazine is a new magazine dedicated to exploring how progress happens — or doesn’t happen — in the developing world.
We’ve just posted our first story. It is by Paul Niehaus, on cash transfers, evidence, and what empowerment really means.
It also contains the line “In 2005 my co-founders and I finagled invitations to a kickoff event for the International Year of Microcredit at the United Nations. The mixed drinks were, as I recall, stronger than the evidence.”