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Blog Post
December 08, 2010
This is a joint post with Lawrence MacDonald.
Browsing through Wikileaks to try to understand what the fuss was all about, Alan came on an interesting cable (10Beijing367) about African views on possible cooperation between China and Western donors on aid to Africa. According the summary of a ca...
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November 04, 2010
This is a joint post with Owen McCarthy.
At the next meeting of its Executive Board in Rome on November 8, the management of the World Food Programme (WFP) will propose an expanded financing facility to the tune of $557 million to fund advance purchases of food. This is a welcome news that has th...
Blog Post
October 21, 2010
This piece originally appeared in the Financial Times.
How ironic that the world’s reserve currency issuer (the US) and its long-term rival to that status (China) are competing to nearly debauch their own currencies? America’s behaviour – more effect than intent – takes the form of quantitative e...