Dambisa Moyo, author of Dead Aid and one of Time's most influential people in 2009, posted this on twitter yesterday: "Villagers using mosquito nets as wedding gowns: Yet another unintended consequence of a 'good' deed."  As someone trained in policy from Harvard and economics from Oxford, she should know better.  As someone with an increasing amount of influence, she should really know better.

We shouldn't be using anecdotes as support for any policy formulation.  This one especially concerns...
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Yesterday was world Malaria Day.  The social media community has embraced malaria of late, with the "king of twitter" Ashton Kutcher donating $100,000 to the cause after beating CNN to 1M twitter followers and some of twitter's loudest voices such as Evan Williams (CEO of twitter) and Kevin Rose (Founder of Digg) tweeting to garner support for the cause.  Supporting the distribution of malaria nets has become the hot development cause du jour.

This has created quite a stir in some corners of t...
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