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Saturday, November 29, 2008
Weekend video: Inside North Korea
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Interesting video about North Korea and how a Nepali doctor led team reveals what’s going on inside the reclusive country ruled by a tyrant!...
Friday, November 28, 2008
Poverty in India
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Here is an article about poverty statistics for India. This is based on a revised poverty estimate by Ravallion and Chen. The article ...
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 ...
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