Posts Tagged ‘development’
Me leading Economist debate
8 Feb 2011I am opposing the motion that “the global elite serves the masses” in an Economist online debate. Please feel free to participate here.
Recording of Birmingham event
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29 Jan 2011My introduction to the Birmingham Salon debate on 11 January on whether economic growth is feasible or desirable is available to listen to here. It was particularly interesting to debate a mainstream development economist, Professor Somnath Sen, rather than a self-professed green. His ideas were completely in line with the “growth scepticism” I critique in [...]
- Tags: development, growth, speeches
The more growth the better
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17 Jan 2011This is my latest comment from Fund Strategy. One of the most striking features of the global economy in recent years is the performance gap between the developing world and the West. Although the advanced economies are starting from a much higher base, the poorer countries are growing faster. Every year since 2000 emerging and [...]
- Tags: development, environment, Fund Strategy, growth
Articles of note
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16 Jan 2011Branko Milanovic on economic inequality between nations and peoples, the Browser, interview by Anna Blundy. The author of a new book on inequality and World Bank economist recommends books by John Rawls, John Hobson, Angus Maddison, Paul Bairoch and Aldo Schiavone. The inequality that matters, the American Interest, by Tyler Cowen. Argues that the key [...]
- Tags: book, development, economics, finance, happiness, inequality
A valuable source for optimists
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13 Jan 2011Those looking for facts to show how the world is generally improving look like having another excellent source of information. Charles Kenny’s Getting Better follows the likes of Indur Goklany, Bjorn Lomborg and Matt Ridley in showing how prosperity is benefiting humanity. For those particularly interested in the third world his work should be especially [...]
- Tags: book, development, economics, progress
A year of prevarication
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13 Dec 2010This is my last Fund Strategy comment on the year. The next issue will be published on 13 January 2011. It is generally hard to find a simple way to characterise any year. There are many competitors for the title of key event or trend. But if 2010 were to be described in one phrase, [...]
- Tags: development, economics, Europe, finance, Fund Strategy
For World Cup in Russia and Quatar
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6 Dec 2010This is my latest comment from Fund Strategy. The sour response to England’s failure to win the 2018 World Cup bid suggests that many people in Britain are out of touch with the modern world. Such parochialism has damaging consequences which go far beyond football. Many commentators seem to believe that England has an almost [...]
- Tags: development, Fund Strategy
Articles of note
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5 Dec 2010Africa needs growth, not pity and big plans, Wall Street Journal, by Matt Ridley. Africa needs aid, not flawed theories, Wall Street Journal, by Bill Gates. Ridley and Gates debate the problems of Africa and climate change. Beyond ‘dangerous’ climate change: emission scenarios for a new world, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, by [...]
Debating empowerment
4 Dec 2010Ekaterina Mitiaev, a consultant to the Hunger Project, has summarised my critique of cultural approaches to development in an article in the Wecoemp (women economic empowerment) review (p18-20). She is sympathetic towards my critique and critical of narrow conceptions of empowerment. For Mitiaev the notion of empowerment should be defined in broader terms: “The Hunger [...]
- Tags: development, media appearances, women
G20 signals American decline
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15 Nov 2010This is my latest comment from Fund Strategy. It is hard to cut through the bluster and public relations spin that surrounds global summits. Last week, however, there was an important trend lurking not far beneath the surface at the G20 event in Seoul. Global summits are generally symbolic rather than decision-making events. Communiques are [...]
- Tags: development, economics, finance, Fund Strategy
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