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Blog Post
May 24, 2024
This has been a week of extremes for me: I spent the first part of the week basking in sunshine in Barcelona for a (very good) conference, meeting people from around the world working on interesting problems, eating incredibly good food and enjoying one of the more walkable cities I’ve visited. And ...
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May 17, 2024
It was a long, hard slog, and there have been a number of setbacks (not least days on end of merciless grey skies and rain), but London has finally settled into a real, actual summer. That means two things: first, everyone is in a ridiculously good mood. We get three weeks of sunshine a year, and it...
Blog Post
May 17, 2024
At a time when global challenges appear daunting and geopolitical rivalries are rising, it is useful to remind ourselves that the past 75 years have seen more improvement in the human condition than ever before. Fifty years ago, half the world lived in extreme poverty, today it is less than one in 1...
CGD NOTES
May 14, 2024
This note presents two scenarios for the world economy and development prospects to 2050 based on the forecasting exercises and analysis presented in a series of papers by Philip Adom, Augustin Kwasi Fosu, Dede Woade Gafa, Zack Gehan, Brian Webster, Ranil Dissanayake and Charles Kenny.
Blog Post
May 14, 2024
Richer aging countries need educated young workers to provide the services and entrepreneurial talent to sustain their quality of life. A growing population of young, increasingly educated people in poorer countries, and especially in Africa, need good jobs and greater opportunities. More trade in s...
Blog Post
May 10, 2024
It was hit-and-miss for a while—there were a good few weeks when I thought the UK would just completely forego spring and summer and transition directly from winter into autumn—but there are tentative signs of summer in London. London in the summer is a bit like a bird that spends 11 months of the y...
Blog Post
May 03, 2024
One of the things I missed last week was Jishnu Das’s excellent, heartfelt piece about the state of development economics. But he’s not talking about causal identification or taking potshots in the war on randomization, but about the deeper values that he suggests have gone missing from the discipli...
Blog Post
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 10, 2024
The UK Government has committed to producing a strategy on how the UK will support local leadership on development, climate, nature and humanitarian action; and its Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has endorsed a Donor Statement on Supporting Locally Led Development. Lisa Nandy, Labour’s...