https://www.matthewbird.org/home daily 1.0 2025-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb334d4e0fff5164018f81a/1616379242390-FNRNC6KN7SKVSNDYR4J6/Bird+-+UP+-+Pic+-+Twitter+-+Google+Scholar.jpg Home My research examines how critical and dynamic capabilities influence the decisions individuals and organizations make to advance what they perceive as human development. This framework guides my applied research, which evaluates via randomized trials and other quasi-experimental methods how interventions in Africa and Latin America help actors make more autonomous decisions when facing an arc of political and economic possibilities. These initiatives fall into two lines of study: https://www.matthewbird.org/bio daily 0.75 2025-01-23 https://www.matthewbird.org/new-page daily 0.75 2025-01-19 https://www.matthewbird.org/contact daily 0.75 2021-03-30 https://www.matthewbird.org/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2025-01-23 https://www.matthewbird.org/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2025-01-19 https://www.matthewbird.org/cases daily 0.75 2021-03-31