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Oliver Hanney

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Oliver Hanney

@oliverhanney

Managing Editor @vox_dev

Joined December 2022

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Oliver Hanney
@oliverhanney
Apr 9
🆕 The development economics I’d like to see I recently attended the Growth Summit in Morocco. It was the best conference I’ve ever attended. My main takeaway was that development economics is missing a whole ecosystem of organisations working on growth: olihanney.substack.com/p/the-developm…
Oliver Hanney
@oliverhanney
Aug 6
Why do some things work surprisingly well? Really enjoyed this deep dive into the story of Labanya Margaret, statistics in South Sudan, and how to build teams that get stuff done. Dan Honig (@rambletastic) on @indevmag:
What South Sudanese Data Can Teach Us All, and Why We Should Care – In Development
From indevelopmentmag.com
Oliver Hanney
@oliverhanney
Jul 27
🆕 Great resource on economic inequality now on Our World in Data. This includes a mix of data, charts, and writing on economic inequality - within & between countries - drawing on different data sources that make it possible to take a global perspective:
Economic Inequality
From ourworldindata.org
Oliver Hanney
@oliverhanney
Jul 23
🆕 Numbers Man Today on In Development, @oliverwkim has blessed us with an incredibly interesting deep dive into the two Robert McNamaras that history remembers, most (in)famously as the US secretary of defense, and later as president of the World Bank. Link below.
Oliver Hanney
@oliverhanney
Jul 15
🆕 Adaptation, not adoption, is king A new post by Sharif Kazemi, myself, @hanshengchia, Sid Ravinutala and @ShahrukhWani outlining why, instead of funding another pilot, we need to fund the ‘adaptation layer’, to unlock AI for development:
Adaptation, not adoption, is king
From voxdev.org