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Jishnu says most common question he gets at conferences from students is not "how can I work on questions that are relevant and important to LMICs" but "will this question get me a paper in QJE or other top journal"

Oriana Bandiera points out that we need to move conferences on development economics so that they happen in LMICs. She has done this and it's been a great success.

We need to set up world class institutions on the African continent. Leonard Wantchekon did this by setting up the African School of Economics.

Leonard Wantchekon points out never been African on editorial board of Journal of Development Economics.

This is reflected in a mismatch between the problems policy makers in Africa care about and what academics write about.

And even fewer papers with coauthors from Africa.

Markus Goldstein making the point that there are very few papers in top economics journals on sub Saharan Africa.

Arvind Panagarian on whether India can become developed econ by 100 years from independence. Recent trends suggest possible but real challenges incl 46% workforce in agriculture and 40% workers in enterprises in firms with less than 10 workers.

If you are looking for more careful analysis of the impact of the US aid cuts on lives, my colleagues @charlesjkenny.bsky.social and (now ex colleague) @justsand.bsky.social recognize the challenge that aid may crowd in or crowd out other financing. 4/
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I did find it interesting that their estimated impact of US assistance is much higher for HIV and malaria--areas of specific US focus--than for other diseases. Has anyone done this disease specific analysis more appropriately? 3/

Does anyone know how and why Sierra Leone is on this list of countries from which travel to US is partially restricted because of concerns about terrorism? I can think of a lot of countries with much worse levels of terrorism.