When they say that data is the new oil...

Such an important theme and work! Don't miss it!

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I hear there's a debate about a certain superpower's government-subsidized overcapacity that far outstrips domestic demand and that is flooding global markets and stoking conflict.

Glad the issue is finally on the table.

Eid Al-Fitr is here. My best to my Muslim friends.

UNCTAD rebrands to United Nations Trade & Development.

The strategic move underscores the organization's commitment to greater impact, with a new, clearer visual identity to better reflect its work & values and to amplify its voice on behalf of developing countries. unctad.org/news/unctad-re…

Come along & join our SOAS Development Leadership Dialogue Conversation Apr 23rd w Azman Mokhtar, Razia Khan, & Victor Murinde: Reclaiming the financial commons - can ESG & sustainable finance initiatives make a real difference? soas.ac.uk/about/event/re…

Israeli historian Dr Ilan Pappé reminds us why Gaza is Gaza in terms of geography.

As Antonio Andreoni and Fiona Tregenna showed when analyzing a supposed inverted U-curve between industrialization and per capita income (PInc), our results also show that there is no such curve when analyzing industrial productivity and wage growth and (PInc) (including for MIC).

Kicking off our 2nd Future Leaders Programme on Industrial Policy for Economic Development in a time of Ecological Crisis.

It’s one of the biggest problems of our time, but luckily we have an amazing group to grapple with it!

⁦Antonio Andreoni⁩

'Transactional foreign policy is much more honest and peace-conducing than the so-called value-based foreign policy'
A Conversation with Branko Milanović
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Happy birthday to Albert Hirschman, who would be 109 today.

Hirschman—anti-fascist, resistance hero, later a development economist—may be the most interesting person to ever take up the profession.

🧵 and blog post on his remarkable life and work.

Attitudes have become so extreme that anyone who even *attempts* to tackle hard, important questions are scorned as unscientific, while scorners dedicate their lives to precisely proving points everyone already knows. Anything less than definite & airtight is not publishable…

This is not an interview, this is a masterpiece 🔥☄️

China is a fact.

'China is producing too much'.
Does Janet Yellen know any economic history? Did not India say the same thing to England? Did not England say the same thing to the US?

'This role will challenge my assumptions about contemporary Britain as much as the Indian subcontinent'

Avinash Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल awarded a The British Academy Innovation Fellowship with a secondment to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, focusing on policy priorities in South Asia.

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The interesting part is the extremism of Yellen's view. First, you love cheap goods, ignore everything else & believe whoever thinks differently is a fool
Then, you change 180 degrees, decide cheap goods create unemployment & want to create trade blocs.

#Gaza : How the Israeli army besieged and attacked #Nasser hospital 🧵

Brilliant: we want more bread, roses and solar panels AND less golf courses (...speaking of which get rid of private jets)