@BernieSanders there is no other side to Cuba – a totalitarian dictatorship

10 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA

Absolute poverty from 1820 to 2015

10 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

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Share of the Chinese population living in extreme poverty

09 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

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The Ultimate Resource

09 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles Tags:

The Great Escape comes to Latin America

07 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags:

Japanese, Korean and US tax revenues as a % of GDP since 1965

02 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, public economics Tags: , , ,

Japanese and Korean growth in the size of government seems to validate Directors’  Law. Government get bigger after countries become rich.

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Data extracted on 23 Feb 2016 07:08 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.

Extreme poverty was halved between 1990 and 2010

02 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: , ,

Japanese, Korean and US general government expenditure as a % of GDP since 1960

02 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, Public Choice, public economics Tags: , , ,

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Data extracted on 23 Feb 2016 07:45 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stats.

A fragile state lists from DFID

29 Feb 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in constitutional political economy, development economics, growth disasters, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags:

The Philippines since martial law

26 Feb 2016 Leave a comment

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Tear down Africa’s trade walls

25 Feb 2016 Leave a comment

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Chinese, Hong Kong, Taiwanese and Japanese billionaires by source of wealth

24 Feb 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, growth miracles, industrial organisation, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: , , , , , , ,

Surprisingly few billionaires in any of the 4 countries obtained their wealth through political connections. Founding a company seems to be still the path of great wealth even in Japan these days. Hong Kong is a financial centre so the large number of billionaires in its financial sector is no surprise.

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Source: Caroline Freund and Sarah Oliver, The Origins of the Superrich: The Billionaire Characteristics Database (2016).

Few vegetarians are vegetarians by choice

22 Feb 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, health economics

Source: An Estimate of the Number of Vegetarians in the World.

@RusselNorman Why 1.3 billion people without access to electricity can’t afford to divest from fossil fuels

20 Feb 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: , ,

Digital technologies spread faster than sanitation in low and middle income countries.

20 Feb 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, health economics

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