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Economics - Globalization - Development - Dignity - Faith - Hope - Transformation| Across Two Worlds
Economics - Globalization - Development - Dignity - Faith - Hope - Transformation| Across Two Worlds
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
Why should a development NGO invest in the modern tools of impact evaluation? I’ve met with many Christian development NGOs who are eager to understand the real effects of their program on pa…| Across Two Worlds
A number of years ago on a flight from SFO to the East Coast I was seated next to a guy who told me he was returning home after doing the “Escape from Alcatraz” swim. He described dark choppy…| Across Two Worlds
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics was given to David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens for their work in using observational data and natural experiments to help us understand causal relations…| Across Two Worlds
One of the most popular schools of thought in global ethics today is a movement called Effective Altruism. Founded on the work of Princeton philosopher Peter Singer, it draws heavily on ideas deve…| 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
by Bruce Wydick and Kent Annan, appearing in Christianity Today online 10/23/20 Particularly in this time of global pandemic, we want to know how to care for our local and global neighbor in ways t…| 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
Recently my coauthors and I finished a CEGA working paper for a research project that fell into the category of one of those “dying to know if this popular thing really works” studies. Previo…| Across Two Worlds
The smartest administrators will not only plan for delivering education during the pandemic, but will develop capacities to meet the surge in demand for higher education when the pandemic fades.| Across Two Worlds
The only way to feel worse about the impacts of COVID-19 than talking to people in public health is to talk to people in business and economics. Macroeconomists often tell us that the typical rece…| 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
