Battling corruption with a zero rupee note [h/t Jo Rowlands] If Martin Luther King had had powerpoint….. Owen Barder: What is it like being a Millennium Village? Shopkeeper: Very good. We have lots of things. O: Does everything work well? Shopkeeper: No, not all of it. But we are much better off now. O: Who decides what to change? Do you have a village council, or is there an Elder who decides? Shopkeeper: It is all decided by a Professor in New York. O: Really? Do you know his name? Shopkeeper: No. But he is a very famous man ’nuff said Two promising new sites IPPR’s Matthew Lockwood and Andrew Pendleton try to fill the political vacuum in climate change debates with a new ‘political climate’ blog And a new Journal on Globalization and Development, headlined by Joe Stiglitz and free oline And finally, why doesn’t Obama watch more West Wing? [h/t Alex Evans] ]]>
Re the zero rupee note: I suggest using tea bags in Kenya, where the Swahili term for petty bribes is chai = tea. A Scottish doctor I knew there always kept a tea bag on the dashboard of his car. Whenever stopped by the traffic police he would preempt their demands for bribes by holding up the tea-bag and asking in his best up-country Swahili “Unataka chai kidogo?”, “Do you want a little chai”?
Zero Rupee Note: Dev Blogosphere Meme?…
The zero-rupee note makes its way around the development blogosphere and into the Economist. Not bad for a note that’s worth nothing!……