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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Poverty in Focus#16: All about creating jobs
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Here is a new edition of Poverty in Focus#16 : Jobs, Jobs, Jobs- The Policy Challenge. The IPC publishes excellent issues focusing on povert...
Joe Stiglitz on the financial crisis
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Nice piece about the reasons of the financial mess, which is threatening the global economy into a recession, from Joseph Stigltiz. In shor...
OLPC and freedom
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Here is a nice piece about how One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has failed to live up to its expectations of providing free software. OLPC viola...
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Does improved health necessarily raise economic growth?
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Common belief is that improved health leads to increased prosperity, i.e. a healthy labor force and human resource are assets that contribut...
Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics
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Here is an interesting piece about the Chinese economic model. Professor Yasheng Huang challenges the Beijing Consensus (that incremental ...
Thursday, November 20, 2008
World Development Report 2009
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The World Development Report 2009 is titled Reshaping Economic Geography .The gist of the report: growth is unbalanced but development can b...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Paul Samuelson blasts libertarians
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Paul Samuelson argues that there is no alternative to market system but this is not the same thing as unregulated capitalism. Based on his ...
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