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December 22, 2021
In the fifth installment of the Future of Development series, which brings together experts to discuss the big questions facing developing countries over the next decade, Leonard Wantchekon and Sarah Khan took on the role of politics in development (and vice versa), exploring how political distortio...
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December 20, 2021
As the year draws to a close, the temptation to claim wisdom from adversity and experience becomes irresistible. We did it last year, by exploring what we learnt while the world burned around us. 2021 was perhaps a marginal improvement: not quite the best of times, but not quite the worst of times, ...
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December 17, 2021
Hi all, It feels fitting that the last links of the year (for such is this salvo of egregious geekery) should start with the crushing disappointment that the English test cricket team so reliably brings (rivalled only in its consistent mediocrity by the English political establishment, cur...
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December 03, 2021
As you get older, you accumulate a number of experiences that should—in theory—help you navigate your life with a little more elan and with fewer pitfalls. And for the most part, it works like that: even in the space of a few weeks I’ve seen how my small son has learnt which bits of our furniture ar...
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November 29, 2021
While hopes for mobilizing private finance for climate response were boosted by the investment firms managing a collective $130 trillion who signed onto net zero pledges at the COP, actually getting the private trillions to move south remains a huge challenge. And two leading proposals point to the ...
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November 26, 2021
Illness and the prospect of this nu variant has put something of a dampener on my mood, but you know what cheers me up? Every year, without fail, the DI crew unearth a paper-of-the-year candidate in their JMC series, and this year it’s this stunning work from Juan Felipe Riaño. Just d...
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November 23, 2021
Next week the UN will publish its global humanitarian overview (GHO) for 2022: the world’s most comprehensive, authoritative, and evidence-based assessment of need. The GHO has sustained a good track record in recent years in predicting what is ahead, albeit that every year unexpected new challenges...