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I missed the planting season and a PhD. But there was a period, especially between 2003 and 2006, during which I thought was a pretty attractive option. Then I went and I spent the few nest egg that we had two years ago to do a masters in energy and finance - as to make a second master was a decision that seemed to have the logic in that moment: if I wanted to jump into the private sector would have to go through business school, right? Anyway, after a year and a half to doubt the wisdom of that investment, it seems that in the end, that is going to cost.

Anyway, back to the doctorate, the fact is that yes I could think of some topics that I would have loved deeply microeconometrics based. One of them is the mysterious decline in infant mortality in Malawi, illustrated in the graph of google that I present below. Between 1992 and 2004 the rate of decline was greater than in any other country south of the Sahara (from 240 per 1,000 live births to 133 - the data does not correspond with the chart, here are ). The case is that it is a mystery because the general opinion of the elite in Malawi is that the first decade of democracy (1994-2004) was a lost decade. It is an opinion that was leaked to official publications, including the assessment World Bank poverty reduction in the country in 2006.



have explored the hypothesis, and on which there is still no quantitative assessment had been that reducing infant mortality has been the result of:

(1) a fall in the poverty caused by sector liberalization snuff (which before 1992 could only cultivate a privileged few to whom the government granted a license);

and (2) the introduction of free primary education in 1994, which marked a dramatic increase in literacy especially among girls.

Why still no evidence of the positive effects of these reforms as simple as a fundamental indicator such as infant mortality? For me it is a reflection of everything that is wrong with the international development sector:

(1) because the message that the liberalization of agricultural markets in Africa could have a beneficial impact not fit unequivocally and with 'post-Washington consensus.

(2) Because the government that carried out much of the reform was very corrupt in his second term (1999-2004) and therefore the international agencies were not interested in acknowledging the successes they might have previously.

(3) For the new president (elected in 2004) was also interested to see the mandates of his predecessor as a resounding failure.

(4) For the national elites will not benefit changes - had to compete with farmers producing more snuff and quality of primary education fell enough - and therefore their perception of that period in its history was and is very negative.

Y (5) because this Development Programme United Nations and other inconsequential little characters could be noted, completely implausible, the success of reducing child mortality.

So there you have it. The Spaniard Random doctoral never was and never will be. Of course, the question is still left there, hoping that a young researcher willing to go against current anime someday.