Development economics is ultimately about improving people's lives.
People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
The key function of banks is transforming illiquid assets into liquid liabilities.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
"I see everything. That is my problem."