…sources). Ht Paul Kirby Microsummary of nearly 300 papers to Oxford’s recent African economics conference, covering ‘nearly every aspect of African societies, from agriculture to education to firms to health…
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…The power of juxtaposition. Turkish photographer Ugur Gallenkus portrays two different worlds within a single image. ht PSBaker ‘Economics has become like catholic theology in medieval Europe’. Peak Ha-Joon Chang….
Complexity 101: behind the hype, what do we actually know?
…called a ‘science’ in itself, or a movement within existing disciplines (e.g. see Beinhocker’s book on what complexity means for economics). Calling a problem ‘complex’ is a shorthand for saying…
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…my heroes, Kate Raworth and Branko Milanovic, are disagreeing in an illuminating exchange on Doughnut Economics Lovely discussion on growing up Asian in North America If golf and soccer switched…
The inside story on how Rwanda removed VAT on sanitary products
…at GIZ based at Rwanda’s Ministry of Economic Planning and Finance (MINECOFIN). She completed her MSc in Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2016….