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• Empoverished Reasoning in Anti-Poverty Activism

  
  Incentives Matter — Authority: 128
  This is an extract from an article on poverty in Switzerland that appeared in the Swiss Review of December 2008 : But whats the "official" poverty threshold? In Switzerland, the poverty values of the Swiss Conference on Social Welfare are the most commonly used. These values factor in decent living conditions and ...
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• Povertry reduction and growth

  
  Ferraris for all — Authority: 129
  The Economist has an article on poverty reduction which suggests there is no correlation between economic growth rates and eradicating hunger. It is based on studies by ActionAid and by Martin Ravallion of the World Bank. Such studies can lead to naïve conclusions. No doubt there is no simple correlation between ...
  1 day ago

• Is Dubai about to default on its £50bn debt?

  
  Tax Research UK — Authority: 567
  Is Dubai about to default on its £50bn debt? | Business | The First Post . D ubai could become an economic basket case on the level of the Icelandic disaster as the cost of insuring its astonishing sovereign debt skyrockets on investor fears the city-state may default on its debts. Yesterday, to the considerable ...
  2 days ago

• Can Global De-Carbonization Inhibit Developing Country Industrialization?

  
  Globalisation and the Environment — Authority: 490
  This is the question raised in a recent World Bank Working paper. The answer has to be "yes" without reading the paper. The question is the magnitude. The numbers from the abstract to not strike me as too far off for China and India. You can bet that the Chinese and Indian governments have already worked this out ...
  1 week ago

• WSJ: The Henry Ford of Heart Surgery

  
  Growth Matters — Authority: 112
  You dont have to be a healthcare policy wonk to appreciate the achievements made at the Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital in Bangalore, India. Its a hospital that has a higher success rate, performing far greater volumes at a cost thats a 10th of what a typical American hospital might charge for open heart surgery. As ...
  1 week ago

• The Great Flu Cover-up

  
  Foreign Policy — Authority: 746
  How governments concealed the extent of the H1N1 pandemic and risking the outbreak of a virus thats even more deadly.
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• Putting on Their Happy Faces

  
  Africa — Authority: 471
  For at least the time being the tensions within the ANC’s tripartite alliance over the establishment of the National Planning Commission (NPC) appear to have been assuaged . ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe assures us that all is well, and to prove it he had beside him at his announcement two nodding ...
  1 week ago

• Manmohan Singh’s visit to take India-US ties to next level (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Arun KumarWashington, Nov 17 (IANS) President Barack Obama had chosen to invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the first state visit by any foreign dignitary to his White House as the US wanted to take their strategic relationship to the next level, according to a senior US official.Describing the relationship ...
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• Total Factor Productivity is a Key Measurement, But How Do You Increase it?

  
  Thoughts About K4D — Authority: 133
  Source: The Economist"The OECD publishes figures for its rich-country members. These show that since 1990, average TFP growth has been remarkably similar in America, Japan, Germany, Britain and France, at around 1% a year. A recent report by Andrew Cates, an economist at UBS, attempts to estimate TFP growth in ...
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• Financial Transaction Tax: summing up a week after Brown’s bombshell

  
  ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC — Authority: 576
  It’s been a week since Gordon Brown stole the headlines at the G20 Finance Ministers’ Meeting at St Andrews on 7 November by supporting a Financial Transactions Tax (FTT). Was it all a flash in the pan, or has Gordon taken the debate to a new level? In truth, the campaign for what will probably always be known ...
  1 week ago

• The Place of Nature in Economic Development

  
  Globalisation and the Environment — Authority: 490
  Another large paper to read. This article is overdue and is a must read (if I ever get time). Here are the conclusions. I tend to agree with much of what is written here. The Place of Nature in Economic Development [PDF] In this paper I have reviewed what seems to me to be the most salient issues in ecological ...
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• Manuel and the Alliance

  
  Africa — Authority: 471
  When Jacob Zuma first rose to the South African presidency many feared that among the changes he would implement would be to reduce the role of Trevor Manuel. Instead Manuel, long considered among the very best, most effective South African politicians, seems to have had his role augmented. Finance Minister from 1996 ...
  2 weeks ago

• What is wrong with development policy making?

  
  Urbanomics — Authority: 131
  Longish essay (more on the theoretical and abstract front), summarizing impressions on development policy making. It is commonplace to have development experts and multi-lateral institutions venturing diagnosis of what ails a developing country and ready-to-implement prescriptions for those problems. They despair ...
  3 weeks ago

• Making money, and being a do-gooder. Sounds interesting?

  
  Terry — Authority: 131
  Dionne says: - – - On Saturday November 21st, A brand new (really exciting) one-day conference is making its debut. The Social Entrepreneurship Experience (SEE) is a unique event where students can come learn how to effect change in the local community. Leaders who have successfully started for-profit ...
  3 weeks ago

• ECCB Sponsored Lecture Presents a Post Financial and Economic Crisis Assessment

  
  Kittivisian Life — Authority: 125
  itizens of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) will be exposed to a new perspective on globalisation when Dr Danny Leipziger, Vice President for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management at the World Bank presents the ECCB sponsored 14th Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Lecture on 4 November.Dr Leipziger will speak ...
  3 weeks ago

• Public, please help me determine a gradual, economical policy for my life.

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 650
  Considering grad school for public policy, economics, international development. Help me sort out my life. Note: my situation is pretty similar to this post . (I did a double take when I read it to make sure I hadnt posted this question already myself) I just got back from teaching English for two years in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Syria: Economic Woes

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 721
  Ehsani , an economist and contributor to Joshua Landis ‘ Syria Comment, elaborates on the divisions between Syrias top economy decision makers. The Commission for State Planning published a rare report criticizing Abdulla Dardaris, Deputy PM for Economic Affairs, liberal economic policies.
  3 weeks ago

• [Development] Focusing on Metrics and Not People

  
  El Oso — Authority: 426
  Whew. I just published the third and final part of my “New Era of Media Development” series over at Idea Lab. I’m glad to have that out of the way. I know I’ve been whining quite a bit lately about the funding community, but that’s because that is where all the power lies , and hence where the bottleneck ...
  4 weeks ago

• On Disguised Unemployment: Some Issues

  
  Undergraduate Economist — Authority: 93
  This post discusses some of the broad theoretical issues underlying the category of ‘disguised unemployment’. The discussion is made clear by closely examining the hypothesis that Indian agriculture is plagued by the presence of high disguised unemployment. Let us take a glimpse at the Economics textbook for ...
  4 weeks ago

• What Startups Are Really Like

  
  What The Christ? — Authority: 155
  Ever wondered what it’s like to run a startup ? Read Paul Graham’s essay on the subject. I’ve been involved in startup companies before. Paul’s is a spot-on take on things.
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