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Ryan Briggs

Ryan Briggs is an assistant professor of political science at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on the political economy of poverty alleviation.

Latest articles by Ryan Briggs

The Big Idea
Millions of Americans as destitute as the world’s poorest? Don’t believe it.Millions of Americans as destitute as the world’s poorest? Don’t believe it.
The Big Idea

The claim is empirically wrong and, if used to alter aid policy, potentially catastrophic.

By Ryan Briggs