Titles, sentences, and the talk of the town

Titles:

Gay rights and economic growth. 

Easy Useless Economics.

9 Things I Learned From Woody Allen. HT: @ishKrishna.

7 things I don’t like @ being an Academic.

Sentences:

One of Buteau’s suggestions for bolstering reconstruction efforts is to have Haitian firms and local organizations play a more prominent role—less than one percent of contracts awarded by USAID in fiscal years 2010 and 2011 went to Haitian firms. HT: @MargRev, and Marc Bellemare.

In the end, both camps should show greater humility: macro-development practitioners about what they already know, and micro-development practitioners about what they can learn.

The talk of the town:

However, when we correct for a mathematical error and use more recent comparison data, we find that under-5 mortality has fallen at just 5.9% per year at MVP sites, which is slower than the 6.4% average annual decline in under-5 child mortality in the MVP countries nationwide.