Our In Development Magazine essay of the week is by Dan Honig, on the management practices that make governments work better.
The blockbuster essay of the week is clearly Rafael Proenca’s piece on catch-up growth in developing countries and how AI could increase the gap between rich and poor countries.
Though Saloni Dattani is giving Rafa competition for essay of the week with her piece on how every disease is a policy failure.
Talking to an AI chatbot does not relieve loneliness; it actually increases it.
Akhil Bansal writes on fractional dosing for the mpox vaccine.1
The Roots of Progress has announced their 2026 fellows. Excited to see some development writers in there!
The county my family is from is the one county in western Kansas that voted against women’s suffrage. No comment.
The more you procrastinate, the less money you make and the more medical problems you have. Yikes.
Supposably is apparently a word - it means “as may be conceived or imagined”.
There is a neologism in China to describe “women perceived to have no money, employment, education, prospects, looks, friends, or sophistication”. It is 沒女.
Stay tuned to In Development Magazine for more fractional dosing content…
The data collection in South Sudan story made me feel things 🥲