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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Botswana: For how long can it spark on diamonds?

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The IMF Working Paper series has published a new report that looks at the sustainability of rising Botswanian expenditure financed by diamo...
Thursday, April 3, 2008

Zoellick’s “One Percent Solution” to Africa’s problems

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Today I attended a discussion forum organized by the Center for Global Development (CGD) in DC. The World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

GDP/GNI Per Natural: New way of measuring development!

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Michael Clemens from CGD and Lant Pritchett from the KSG have come up with a new measure of development to reduce bias emerging from using...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Top remittance receivers in 2007

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According to a WB report on Migration and Remittances Factbook 2007 , the top five recipients of migrant remittances in 2007 were: ...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Rounds around the Doha Round!

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This is continuation of the previous blog post about a conference I attended on Friday in D.C. The third panel dealt with current state of...
Saturday, March 22, 2008

Chinese Marshall Plan in Africa

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Today I attended a conference on “ South-South Cooperation and Global Trade: Bypassing the Hegemon ?” – organized by GMU’s Center for Global...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

What Makes Growth Sustained?

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This is a title of a recent paper from the IMF Research Department authored by Anthony Berg, Jonathan David Ostry, Jeromin, Zettelmeyer. Th...