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Hi all, A long week comes to a summery, sunny conclusion! Development news: Once more: Does aid work?! Media & democracy in Afghanistan; Cameroon’s ‘auntie army’; do women in Latin America get empowered by microfinance? Traveling in Uganda; the trouble with medical voluntourism; RCTs-it’s complicated; One Belt, One Road & questions of economic empowerment; private security & inequality; how UNDP Eurasia communicates; C4D for vaccination; Read-of-the-week: my poor mother wasn’t trash. Our digital lives: Switching the lens on service & serving; the ideas industry. Publications: Management in a neoliberal world; live poor, die young. Academia: Why haven’t MOOCs replaced professors? Flipping the classroom the right way. Enjoy! New from aidnography Revolution and Authoritarianism in North Africa (book review) There were a couple of reasons why I selected Frédéric Volpi’s book for review. First, Volpi is looking at Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisi