Voices from the Edge, by Ruth O’Brien, is one of the books I picked up by random while studying in Robart’s Library. Although I have a few friends involved in accessability for people with disabilities, and I volunteered for three months at a community of people with disabilities in Mexico, I did not know much […]

Just doing research for a short paper on brain drain. The statistics I am coming over are quite incredible. For example, there are more Ethiopian doctors in Chicago alone, than in all of Ethiopia! And of the 700 doctors that were educated in Zambia after independence, only about 60 are left. 80% of all the […]

The website that I have been working with all summer is now up - surprisingly fast, due to a little hacker attack that took down the previous site. What I have been doing is changing over from EZPublish, an incredibly powerful framework that nobody understood, nor used to its full, and to Dokuwiki, a wiki-based […]

During this year, I took an amazing class in International Health Policy with Professor Anne Emanuelle-Birn. The reading package, which was longer than a bad year (as we say in Norwegian) gave me new insights each week (as Wojciech would notice, me coming down to his room, eager to share), and I choose to go […]

Inspired by an article in Monthly Review. A common discussion when studying economics and development studies is the question of poverty - what is it? Can someone in Bramford who cannot afford to send their kids to summer camp really be compared to a struggling family in Ethiopia, barely surviving off subsistence farming? Of course […]