Links of the day

• Mosquito nets becoming dresses. What would Easterly say about this? Here he is.
• Relatedly, who's helped by these microchips? Why are they a better investment than mosquito nets?
• Starbucks responds.
• Robert Kaplan (who is, by the way, one of the best reporters on conflict in the world) writes about how it sucks to have bad neighbors. What would Collier say?
• Are we more prone to catastrophe because of globalization? And what if we are? Would that mean not to globalize?
• An interview with Alex Tabarrok. Question: Does democracy hold back Indian development?
  
• A too-hard final exam question.