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Child Mortality and Development, the Video

Posted in Data, History, International, tagged , on November 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Courtesy of Bill Gates, here’s Hans Rosling talking child mortality and development. (Gates emphasizes foreign aid in his description, but that seems secondary compared to development generally.) Hans Rosling Breaks Down the Impact of Foreign Aid from bgC3 on Vimeo.

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Avoiding Road Kill in Ghana

Posted in International, Nature, tagged , , , , on June 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »

In Washington’s economic circles, the only animals we usually have to worry about are hawks and doves. (And the occasional raccoon or vole.) If you’re doing development research in Ghana, however, things are more complicated.  Zipping from village to village on her motorcycle, my friend Liz has become intimately familiar with the behavior — often stochastic – of different [...]

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Expeditionary Economics

Posted in International, Macroeconomics, tagged , , , , on June 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »

The U.S. military is now a major player in economic development. In Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, economic stabilization is a core tenet of its counterinsurgency strategy. Which makes good sense, in theory, but raises a troubling practical question: does the military actually know anything about economic stabilization and development? In a recent essay in [...]

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Turning Guantanamo into Hong Kong

Posted in Economy, International, Macroeconomics, tagged , , , , , on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

At the TED conference in Oxford last month, Paul Romer put forward a big idea: charter cities. His basic vision is that the best way to promote growth in developing countries may be to start over. Of course, you can’t just sweep away the existing system of economic and political institutions; they may be killing [...]

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