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Illusion of Progress – International Development

For heads of state, celebrity activists, and heralded intellectuals—the agenda setters whose  Powerpoints prescribe the policy goals—the distance from reality is even more profound than for low-level consultants like me. For these notables, new hotels and ...

Problem of International Development Projects

By definition, international development projects have narrow objectives, shortlived, and are not institutionalized. “Even though we know better” Harlan Cleveland said half a century ago,“ we are still tackling twenty-year problems with five-year plans based on ...

UN Fetishness

Over the nine weeks of the UN’s founding conference in San Francisco, participants consumed seventy-eight tons—a half-million sheets—of paper per day, propelling a fetish that led Canada’s Lester Pearson, an early leader of the United ...

Me With Processing

Processing: Hey dude, I am not too hard - just try this little code. Me: Wow, this looks good - I do not even know I can program like this. Processing: I told you, you see it ...
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