Digital Archive....

This is my Digital Archive. You can use it. You don't have to. I just re-post stuff here so I ( ! ) can find it back easily. These re-posted (mostly) weblog entries from people I follow via Google Reader will not track comments that were made later. You can always click the title and go back to the original post to see if there was any comment. Today I was requested by Bateman to also post his comment here. I wrote I would. But let's keep it simple.... go to the following link and read about Roodman and Bateman in Groningen and much more.....

The Talk of Groningen David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog By David Roodman - Last week I gave a talk at the Second European Research Conference on Microfinance in the Dutch city of Groningen (pronounced Grrrrrrrrrrrongn). The organizers had a smart idea: pairing me with Milford Bateman in a plenary session. The potential for conflict made it inherently interesting. I don't think the event was recorded for posterity. His talk covered similar ground to this one he gave at the MFC conference in Prague last month. My text is below. Given my past exchanges with Milford it is not surprising that the moment was a bit awkward. Still, I quite enjoyed the session. Good questions from the audience only added to the energy and interest. I expect I'm not the only one for whom it was a highlight. After, I rented one of those one-ton, one-speed, wonderfully practical Dutch cruisers and explored the city's amazing bike path network . (In the city ...

Africa is a Country AFRICA IS A COUNTRY Must be our blog title. Someone named STONE decides to vent on The Hill's Congress Blog  about US foreign aid in a piece about policing the already shrinking foreign aid budget that's currently only 1.5% of all federal spending: It does not matter how little the amount sent to foreign countries, it is the principal of the thing…why send aid to china, a country that continues to grow our debt and buy it up and yet we send them aid? why send aid to africa, we owe that country nothing, just as we owe nothing to every other country ..we Americans fought our way out of our own tyranny and yet we did it…they should do the same without our help…we even had less and do less than those countries do now and yet we help them…why? A few others think so too as we know, old school comedian Drew Carey (in this embarrassing video ) and Sarah Palin , for example, have made the same mistake. Though he was not born in Kenya, at ...