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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Skidelsky on economics and Keynes

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The FT interviews Robert Skidelsky , the biographer of Keynes. Some interesting perspectives: Skidelsky on if economists failed to forese...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Hans Rosling’s new presentation

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Hans Rosling gave a fantastic presentation (combining academic substance plus technology) at a talk show. Watch the interesting presentati...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Chang calls for constructive debate on industrial policy

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Ha-Joon Chang has a new paper on industrial policy (I think it is still a draft), which he presented at ABCDE conference in South Korea r...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

After over 8 years, where does AGOA stand?

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Africa Growth and Opportunity Act ( AGOA ), signed in May 18, 2000, provides Sub-Saharan African exports (mostly textiles and apparel) duty ...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

A demand-determined economy

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A country-specific policy package that recognises economies to be demand-determined would have the following components: (i) an expan fiscal...
Monday, August 17, 2009

Quality of education and economic growth

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Here is a short piece about why the quality of education matters more for growth than just quantity of education (high enrollment rates). T...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Why China is growing faster than India?

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Why are China and India growing faster than other countries? Also, why is China growing faster than India? T.N. Srinivasan argues (via Chr...