Responses to 21 things
My last post, 21 things they never tell you about poverty, was by far my most-read yet, receiving about 10,000 views in two days. Clearly it struck a chord. I wonder whether there’s a widespread...
View ArticleBoosting the domestic economy is the key to raising Papua New Guinea growth
The creation of the PNG LNG project highlights the next major challenge facing Papua New Guinea: how to grow the non-mining sectors. Economist Dan Gay says growing domestic demand, the internet and...
View ArticleThe non-economics of Desperate Dave
David Cameron today again repeated the nonsense claim that anything other than swingeing cuts will cause “economic chaos”. In an indication of just how impoverished mainstream British political debate...
View ArticleApplying the Growth Identification and Facilitation Framework to Uganda
Here’s a blog I just wrote about work we commissioned with Justin Lin and Jiajun Xu of the Peking Center for New Structural Economics on the application of the Growth Identification and Facilitation...
View ArticleInternational support for the least developed countries: A different way?
A community e-Centre in Bhutan. Source: ADB Part I questioned the theoretical background behind the existing international support measures for least developed countries (LDCs) and highlighted some...
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Interview about leaving the least developed country category: The long and winding road to LDC graduation.
View ArticleSix suggestions for improving support to least developed countries
To get LDC graduation back on track, and to help other LDCs, reform of the international system of support must be fundamental and far-reaching. At the start of 2020, a dozen least developed countries...
View ArticleBuild the world back better
Bike lanes are all very well, but it’s global change that really counts. At a time when politicians and commentators are talking about the need to rebuild more sensibly after Covid-19, it’s more...
View ArticleLDCs and the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
As part of the European Green Deal the European Union (EU) is establishing a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), which will put a carbon price on imports of certain goods from outside the EU....
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