I spent three years in South Sudan watching people argue over high-level economic theories while I was busy trying to figure out why a shipment …
Cash Versus Goods and What Decides It
Universal Jurisdiction in Plain Terms
I spent most of my twenties sitting in the back of dusty Toyota Land Cruisers, watching cargo move through checkpoints where the only thing that …
Consent When Publication Carries Risk
I remember sitting in a dusty compound outside Goma, watching a junior researcher try to explain a twenty-page legal document to a village elder. The …
A Food Distribution From Warehouse to Household
I remember sitting in a humid, makeshift office in South Sudan, staring at a spreadsheet that claimed we had successfully deployed three million dollars worth …
Shelter Beyond Tents
I remember sitting in a humid warehouse outside Goma, staring at a stack of high-tech, solar-integrated tent specifications that looked more like something from a …
Input Subsidies and Their Side Effects
I once spent three weeks in a dusty warehouse outside Goma, staring at a mountain of high-grade fertilizer that had been sitting under a tarp …
Corporate Tax and Domestic Revenue
I spent nine years in the bush, watching trucks sit idle because a local ministry couldn’t clear a customs fee that should have been sitting …
Supplying Water to Forty Thousand People
I remember sitting in a dusty office in Goma, staring at a glossy fundraising brochure that promised “transformative water solutions” through high-tech filtration systems. It …
Estimating Money That Leaves Quietly
I’ve sat through enough high-level briefings in Geneva to know that when people start talking about complex econometric modeling to explain how illicit financial flows …
What the Conventions Actually Say
I remember sitting in a humid warehouse outside Goma, staring at a stack of legal briefs that seemed more interested in the philosophy of war …