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November 09, 2023
There are so many studies regarding so many aspects of development economics that it can be difficult to keep up. Last week was the North East Universities Development Consortium annual conference, often called NEUDC. Researchers presented more than 130 papers across a wide range of topics, from agr...
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November 03, 2023
There is something about writing an email while perched on a tiny seat in a cramped bus with your laptop on your knees and your phone (to whose wifi you're tethered to) precariously balanced on a ledge that inspires brevity (yes, I appreciate the irony of me describing this as 'brevity', but you nee...
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October 27, 2023
While I usually like to blame any late distribution of the Friday links on technology (which really is the culprit a lot since we moved to an automated system) or on CGD website policies or freezes, this week—if you wind up reading this on Monday—it's all on me. After my usual sprint home from teach...
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October 23, 2023
For the next few weeks, I'll be writing the links on the bus home from Oxford after a morning of teaching, cheek-by-jowl with what seems like half the population of the city, so forgive me if they sound harrassed, grumpy or just a bit shorter than usual; it will be because they are. Still, there are...
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October 13, 2023
I've rarely been lost for words at the outset of these links, but watching the news these days really is taking my breath completely away. I don't think I can adequately articulate my feelings, or adequately comprehend how it must feel, so I will not try to write anything here beyond that. It feels ...
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October 06, 2023
Earlier this morning, my laptop, which had developed a suspicious hump in the centre of the keyboard, as if all of the mechanical parts were congregating under the letters f to j and taking a vote to strike, dramatically informed me that it had encountered a 'fatal error' and would restart. They wer...
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September 22, 2023
Imagine you were undergoing a programme of uncomfortable and unpleasant, but necessary, exercise and dietary changes to improve your health and found yourself slightly ahead of schedule, though some distance from your target. You sit down with your doctors and give them the good news: I’m doing bett...
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September 15, 2023
Sometimes you just need to turn your brain off and then on again: much like your computer, it will rectify a multitude of sins. I spent two weeks away, moving up and down the Catalan coast, going from beach to beach, lying in the sand with detective novels and watching my three year old pelt up and ...
WORKING PAPERS
August 29, 2023
The war in Ukraine was associated with large changes in the prices of key food and fuel commodities in 2022 which produced macroeconomic gains for exporters and losses as import costs increased. Across 49 countries benefitting, these gains averaged about 8 percent of GDP and reach up to 36 percent o...