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Marco Visscher on the randomistas

In: Daniel In The News

31 Mar 2012

Marco Visscher has quoted me in an article in Ode magazine on the “randomistas”. In Dutch but worth putting through an electronic translator. The randomistas are development economists who focus their work on doing randomised control trials of different development projects. For example, trying to work out how to bolster school attendance or get people [...]

Highlights of my Australian tour

In: Daniel In The News|Uncategorized

24 Mar 2012

For those who are interested here are the details of my recent Australian tour. I was invited by World Vision Australia, a worldwide community development organisation with a Christian ethos, to speak at one of the One Just World forums it organises across Australia with the International Women’s Development Agency and AusAid. Given I was [...]

Why westerners dislike Singapore

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24 Mar 2012

This blog post was first published on Fundweb on 12 March. I have often wondered why so many western tourists say they dislike Singapore. They complain about what they see as its conformism and petty authoritarianism. Now I think I know the real reason they react against the place. It is hard not to see [...]

Great news on global poverty

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23 Mar 2012

This is my Perspective column for 12 March. More material from Fund Strategy will be posted over the next few days. How about some good news for a change? In fact some brilliant news. The number of people living in extreme poverty in the world is steadily falling. This trend is clearly welcome to the [...]

Book review translated into Swedish

In: Daniel In The News

21 Nov 2011

Voltaire, a Swedish magazine, has published a translation of my recent spiked review of Charles Kenny’s Getting Better.

Me vs “Small is beautiful”

In: Daniel In The News

16 Nov 2011

I have an article in the Guardian’s “big ideas” series on EF Schumacher’s notion of “small is beautiful”.

Economic growth central to progress

In: Daniel In The News|Uncategorized

11 Nov 2011

This is my latest book review for spiked One of the most pervasive of contemporary myths is that the lot of humanity is worsening over the long term. Despite the mass of evidence to the contrary, it is still widely held that the world is becoming poorer, more miserable and facing environmental catastrophe. Simply for [...]

Debating “prosperity without growth”

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9 Jun 2011

My debate at the Battle of Ideas 2010 with Tim Jackson, the author of Prosperity without growth?, is now available to watch on video.

My take on Arab Spring

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6 Jun 2011

There follows the opening paragraphs to my Fund Strategy cover story on the Arab Spring. The full article is available here Rising numbers of educated youth, surging food prices and a crisis in the legitimacy of regimes stoked unrest in Arab countries. But the region faces uncertainty and the process of change is likely to [...]

Closing statements in elite debate

In: Daniel In The News

17 Feb 2011

The closing statements in the Economist debate on the global elite are now up. My side of the motion has easily won the popular vote but for peculiar reasons. As the moderator concludes in his summing up: “we have a curious situation where the bulk of people expressing their views in the comments section seem [...]


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