Finally finished some summer reading (ie books I should have already read). My favorite part of African Development by Todd Moss (an accessible overview of issues, actors and decades of enormous effort) was this distinction:
Advocate: "The donors must cooperate better if we are going to life more people out of poverty."
Academic: "The real per capita GNI growth rate and the log of ODA/GDP (lagged t-2) are robustly and positively correlated once the indices of donor proliferation and aid fragmentation developed by Acharya, de Lima, and Moore (2006) are added as independent variables."
Practitioner: "Donor coordination is being implemented in the context of the international consensus reached at Monterrey on the actions needed to promote a global partnership for development and accelerate progress toward the MDGs through the OECD's High Level Forum on Joint Progress Toward Enhanced Aid Effectiveness (Harmonization, Alignment and Results) with monitoring by the Joint Venture on Monitoring the Paris Declaration"
They're all saying the same thing.
Even though my natural language (Academia) is pretty obscure, at least I don't speak Practitioner...
Advocate: "The donors must cooperate better if we are going to life more people out of poverty."
Academic: "The real per capita GNI growth rate and the log of ODA/GDP (lagged t-2) are robustly and positively correlated once the indices of donor proliferation and aid fragmentation developed by Acharya, de Lima, and Moore (2006) are added as independent variables."
Practitioner: "Donor coordination is being implemented in the context of the international consensus reached at Monterrey on the actions needed to promote a global partnership for development and accelerate progress toward the MDGs through the OECD's High Level Forum on Joint Progress Toward Enhanced Aid Effectiveness (Harmonization, Alignment and Results) with monitoring by the Joint Venture on Monitoring the Paris Declaration"
They're all saying the same thing.
Even though my natural language (Academia) is pretty obscure, at least I don't speak Practitioner...
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