25 years after the fall of communism – the economic scorecard
17 Apr 2015 3 Comments
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics
Putin is actually the best of a bad lot
16 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice Tags: Putin, Russia
Cell phones are pretty well everywhere now
16 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of media and culture, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: cellphones, global poverty
Smartphones are coming to Africa: penetration rate expected to exceed 50% in 2019 http://t.co/aYpxoWDOyN—
Laurence Chandy (@laurencechandy) March 05, 2015
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60 years ago North Korea was richer than the South
15 Apr 2015 1 Comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, China, North Korea, South Korea
How widespread is use of the Internet across the globe
15 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of media and culture, growth disasters, growth miracles, technological progress Tags: flags, Internet, technology diffusion, technology usage
A (Developed) World of Things Connected to the Internet http://t.co/J6Mxnglmsy—
ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) March 30, 2015
Real GDP per Japanese and American aged 15-64, 2013 price level, updated 2005 EKS PPP, detrended, 1970-2013
13 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, growth miracles, macroeconomics Tags: GFC, great recession, Japan, Lost Decade
Source: Computed from OECD StatExtract and The Conference Board, Total Database, January 2014, http://www.conference-board.org/economics.
Note: When the line is flat, the economy is growing at its trend growth rate. A falling line means below trend growth; a rising line means of above trend growth. Detrended with values used by Edward Prescott.
The Japanese decline after 1992 are the Lost Decades. Japan recently returned to its 3.2% trend growth rate of the 1970s and 1980s for working age Japanese.
It could be argued that Japan is now on a permanently lower growth rate that implies no further catch up with the USA.
Where does democracy figure in the cycle of development thinking?
13 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, democracy and freedom, IMF, ODA, rule of law, UN, World Bank
just brilliant: hype cycle for development ideas by @dalgoso http://t.co/UQX3tRHOBJ—
Laurence Chandy (@laurencechandy) January 03, 2014
On appeals to emotion
11 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth disasters, health economics, liberalism, resource economics Tags: activists, bootleggers and baptists, climate alarmism, conjecture and refutation, green rent seeking, peak oil, population bomb, precautionary principle
Where will be the remnants of extreme poverty in 2030?
11 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, The Great Fact
Hot off the press: @WorldBank publishes new global poverty estimates and forecasts. 1.01 billion < $1.25/day in 2011 http://t.co/cGfdEAdOMo—
Laurence Chandy (@laurencechandy) October 08, 2014
Poverty will not always be with us
10 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, extreme poverty, global poverty, The Great Fact
via Poverty: Not always with us | The Economist
where do the extreme poor live? this @worldbank graphic wont tell you as it ignores new survey data 4 Nigeria & India http://t.co/APb0M0TuYK—
Laurence Chandy (@laurencechandy) April 14, 2014
Capitalism and freedom is noticeably missing from this survey of UN effectiveness
09 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: capitalism and freedom, overseas development assistance, UN
perceptions of the UN's impact from the development community http://t.co/k8XYisxGaK—
Laurence Chandy (@laurencechandy) October 07, 2014
Whatever happened to the population bomb that so troubled the environmentalist doomsday prophets?
09 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles, population economics Tags: activists, cranks, doomsday prophets, population bomb, the economics of fertility
The world is making less people en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fer… | http://t.co/FlgwlrkUJO—
Charts and Maps (@ChartsAndMaps) April 04, 2015
Who has been and will be carrying the baton to abolish global poverty by 2030?
09 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles
Via The Final Countdown: Prospects for Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030 (Report) | Brookings Institution.
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