Latin America is becoming richer and less unequal https://t.co/fAr0X0GFVz via @worldbankdata ht @TonysAngle pic.twitter.com/Unesc6iwgF
— Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 (@DinaPomeranz) February 1, 2016
Latin America is becoming richer and less unequal
08 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, Latin America
@BernieSanders @realdonaldtrump want to reverse The Great Escape in developing countries
07 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, international economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: absolute poverty, extreme poverty, tariffs, The Great Escape, trade agreements, trade liberalisation
Source: TRANSCRIPT: Bernie Sanders meets with News Editorial Board – NY Daily News.
![]()
Source: If you’re poor in another country, this is the scariest thing Bernie Sanders has said – Vox.
![]()
Source: If you’re poor in another country, this is the scariest thing Bernie Sanders has said – Vox.
.
More reasons to loathe anti-GMO activists
25 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: agricultural economics, antiscience left, GMOs
Poverty reduction in Africa is even greater than previously thought
24 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, econometerics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Africa, extreme poverty, global poverty, The Great campus game
The 1st @PaulKrugman on globalisation & development @harleyhs #TPPANoWay
22 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics Tags: anti-market bias, antiforeign bias, GATT, gender analysis, gender wage gap, makework bias, NAFTA, pessimism bias, preferential trading agreements, rational irrationality, TPPA, WTO
Source: Paul Krugman (1997) Enemies of the WTO.
This visiting American education professor who specialises in globalisation, claimed in the linked radio interview that real wages had fallen in the USA and Mexico. Even for the bottom 20% of the USA, their after-tax household incomes increased by 40% since 1979, with most of that after the signing of NAFTA.
Everything that is bad in crony capitalist Mexico is the fault of NAFTA if our visiting academic is to be believed despite trade tripling and investment increasing 600% because of NAFTA.
Women’s earnings growth has been perfectly fine over the last 40 years despite the horrors of NAFTA and the attack on unions and workers rights by a top 1% emboldened by NAFTA and globalisation, if our visiting academic is to be believed.
Gender analysis, gender analysis, where is his gender analysis of NAFTA? Few labour market statistics make sense without being broken down by sex because of the immense economic progress of women in the last 50 years. Can NAFTA claim credit for that?
The Great Escape comes to Latin America
07 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Latin America
Extreme poverty was halved between 1990 and 2010
02 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, The Great Escape
A fragile state lists from DFID
29 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics, growth disasters, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: failed states
@RusselNorman Why 1.3 billion people without access to electricity can’t afford to divest from fossil fuels
20 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: fossil fuel disinvestment, Fossil Fuels, rational irrationality
How did India’s billionaires make their fortunes
17 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation Tags: billionaires, entrepreneurial alertness, India, superstars, top 1%
A decent number of India’s billionaires founded a company.
Chileans’ life expectancy is now higher than Americans’, while Venezuela’s still catching up
08 Feb 2016 1 Comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: Chile, life expectancies, The Great Escape, Venezuela
@paul1kirby why does @OECD claim that Indians trust their judicial system so much?
07 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, growth disasters, law and economics, property rights Tags: bribery and corruption, capitalism and freedom, doing business, economics of corruption, Index of Economic Freedom, India, rule of law
For a country riddled with corruption, Indians report the surprising amount of confidence in their courts despite the corruption in those courts as well.
Source: Index of Economic Freedom.


Recent Comments