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November 05, 2021
Speaking of tax systems, a nice piece from Nishant Yonkan and co-authors (including Branko Milanovic) looks at the discrepancies between survey and tax data to investigate for which populations these data sources disagree and why this disagreement arises. It won’t surprise many to dis...
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October 29, 2021
Hi all, Ah cricket. That magnificent sport that contains all the drama of Lear in a format just as underappreciated. The 20/20 world cup is going on, and while the short form of the game is to Test cricket what an Saturday Night Live skit is to The Tempest, it’s still pretty amazing when done right ...
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October 29, 2021
The UK government has announced that it anticipates a return to spending 0.7 percent of gross national income (GNI) on official development assistance (ODA) in three years’ time. It is confident enough in this that the just-published Spending Review, which sets departmental budgets up to the 2024/25...
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October 28, 2021
As governments worldwide explore options to increase liquidity and insulate against the worst consequences of COVID-19, Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) are one means of achieving both goals. In August, the IMF announced the largest allocation of SDRs in history—$650 billion—as a critical step to suppo...
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October 25, 2021
Right now, it is very difficult for women fleeing violence to seek asylum at US border. Title 42, an unfounded public health order prohibiting the entry of asylum seekers due to COVID-19, ensures that effectively anyone who attempts to cross the border without a visa can be immediately expelled. Thi...
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October 22, 2021
Hi all, Normally, I complain of sleeplessness because my son has decided that sleep is for weaklings and that 3am is prime babbling, playing and general mischief-making time. But come autumn, I lose sleep for a different reason: living in the wrong time zone to watch LeBron James continue to la...