- Stability, the International Journal of Security and Development, is a new open-access journal which aims to quickly get relevant academic research to policymakers.
- Tom Murphy points out that cancer kills many more people in low income countries each year than does HIV, and Think Africa Press writes that the severe lack of opiates in Africa makes palliative care for cancer victims quite difficult.
- Must African presidential aspirants go to prison before they take higher office? (In French)
- Videos of cash transfer recipients in Kenya and Mozambique telling their stories in their own words.
- A new RCT questions the external validity of RCT-proven results (a political economy story about implementing organizations), and a study from Brazil finds that rainfall fluctuations during pregnancy are associated with changes in infant health outcomes, calling the use of rainfall as an instrument for just about everything into question.
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