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December 18, 2023
The DI job market papers series is winding up, but two very good ones came out this week. First, I was a big fan of Sergio Puerto’s paper on how seed developers do not get the most out of the seeds they develop by failing to account for and cater to the heterogeneity of farmers.
Blog Post
December 11, 2023
Refugees are both highly exposed and highly vulnerable to climate shocks. Despite this, over 15 million refugees and other persons in need of international protection are in countries whose National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) do not account for their adaptation needs. This is a crucial omission that mu...
Blog Post
December 08, 2023
Every once in a while, a moment acts to define an era, marking the precise second that the tides have shifted. Like the first scene of Pulp Fiction, on its release in 1994: at the moment Miserlou starts playing, that was it: this was what every film was going to be like for the next 10 years. The op...
Blog Post
December 05, 2023
Climate change will have enormous effects on the ability of people to live and earn a livelihood in many areas of the world. This is often assumed to mean there will be a ‘flood’ of cross-border out-migration from the most-affected areas. This narrative is inaccurate, harmful, and pervasive despite ...
CGD NOTES
December 04, 2023
On November 9, 2023, Australia and Tuvalu signed an unprecedented cooperation agreement. It offers 280 Tuvaluans—2.5 percent of the islands’ population—permanent residency in Australia each year. The agreement, which stems from a recognition that Tuvalu’s long-term future is endangered by climate ch...
Blog Post
December 01, 2023
What a week, eh. In the UK, the Covid inquiry is kicking into overdrive, with Matt Hancock in this week and Boris Johnson next week, leaving observers with the difficult task of distinguishing fact from… um… well, the other thing (at least, according to the other witnesses to the inquiry, and their...
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November 27, 2023
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), signed into law last year, will provide the United States with $370 billion in direct investments in clean energy, and possibly spur far more through tax credits. The IRA is expected to stimulate a green transition in the US. And it will turbocharge the US green l...
Blog Post
November 27, 2023
Today was the last day of my teaching for the year (and indeed, most of next year too), so with any luck the links won’t open with my complaining about perching my gigantic laptop across my knees in the most over-crowded bus known to man anymore for the next several months. But in the spirit of Than...
Blog Post
November 21, 2023
The European Commission launched a new ‘Skills and Talent Mobility’ package. The package included the creation of a new European Union Talent Pool which aims to match EU-based employers with jobseekers in non-EU (or ‘third’) countries. This blog explores the history of this idea, why the EC thinks i...