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by Bruce Wydick and Jeff Bloem We’re approaching an exciting new era in the relationship between development practitioners and development researchers. After decades of academic paternalism, marke…| Across Two Worlds
Microcredit has arguably been through more ups and downs than virtually any modern poverty intervention. For decades up through the 1980s, the thought was that the poor would never repay loans; cre…| Across Two Worlds
Five Reasons Why Development NGOs Should Invest in the Tools of Modern Impact Evaluation| Across Two Worlds
I am a development economist at the University of San Francisco where my research focuses on the impacts of development programs such as microfinance, child sponsorship, and different in-kind donat…| Across Two Worlds
David Levine and Bruce Wydick Americans—and the world—should cheer the government’s news Friday to lift the pause on the distribution of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The decision wi…| Across Two Worlds
(Written for Christianity Today’s Better Samaritan Blog 1/15/21, click here for link to CT’s online post.) What is the role of hope in escaping poverty? A quick glance at the historical…| Across Two Worlds
This blog appeared as a guest post earlier this month for reopeningthechurch.com, sponsored by the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College and National Association of Evangelicals. Like …| Across Two Worlds
Development practitioners and development economists have an interesting relationship. We talk about the same things, have many of the same interests, but don’t understand each other well. Pr…| Across Two Worlds