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April 26, 2024
The links are back after a two-and-a-half week break in Argentina, and to be honest, my brain is still not fully re-engaged. Argentina is a hard place to be an economist: announcing your profession begets many questions, some of them hostile, and all of them difficult. It’s an amazing place: friendl...
Blog Post
April 05, 2024
These links, the second since our makeover, are exceptional in another way: I’m writing them on a Wednesday evening, and they’ll be sent out some time on Friday by my brilliant colleagues in communications. I don’t normally write these ahead of time: they’re drafted directly into an email, with the ...
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March 22, 2024
Well, if everything works out, today should be the day you get the snazzy new links email in your inbox, complete with the Economics and Marginalia branding and the new (old) title. Let me know how you like it! On the plus side, I like the logo and the font, and it’s a starting point from which we m...
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March 21, 2024
As many developing countries approach universal enrollment in primary school, the World Bank has emerged as one of the most prominent advocates for a pivot “from schooling access to learning outcomes” in recent decades. The most recent education strategy of the Bank, adopted in 2011, emphasizes the ...
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March 15, 2024
This week, in lieu of further stories about my three-year-old’s eccentricity, I bring some exciting news: next week, the links are going to get a makeover. This has been in the works for a very long time. We first started talking about it more than a year ago, but with one thing or another, we haven...
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March 14, 2024
Since the absorption of the Department for International Development (DFID) into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, there has been a clear pattern in the fortunes of the development function of the department, every decision taken made the UK’s development function worse: less impactful, less effi...