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Justin Sandefur

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Trade not aid? In the early 2000s, the African Growth & Opportunity Act, aka #AGOA , unleashed a brief boom in African manufacturing. The China shock killed it. As Congress debates renewing AGOA, can it be revived? New paper w/ @arvindsubraman : 1/

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Justin Sandefur

@JustinSandefur

4 years

The pressure to shut down the PA vote count is going to be insane. Even if the 538 forecast for PA proves accurate (Biden +5), given partisan disparities in mail-in voting, Trump could hold a 16 POINT lead by the end of Tue night.

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That censored World Bank paper is now online: "aid disbursements to highly aid dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management" by @jorgenja et al

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Seems @UChicago is shutting down its economics dept. ht @crampell

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3 years

Happy to have co-signed this letter with 86 @CGDev colleagues applauding our leadership's stand for trans rights, and supporting an appeal of the recent Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling.

Maya Forstater’s ex-colleagues pen explosive letter urging bosses to ‘stand up for trans rights’

Former colleagues of Maya Forstater have urged their company to keep fighting their case and "stand up for the rights of our trans colleagues and

www.thepinknews.com

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Then we wait patiently through 3 more days of counting while, I assume, every nutcase militia in America descends on PA election officials?

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3 years

Ouch. Development economics, ostensibly dedicated to improving the well-being of people in developing countries, is almost devoid of people based in those countries. - JDE editors: 2 of 69 - JPAL affiliates: 5% - ABCDE presenters: 7% - RCT authors: <10%

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8 years

See Americans aren't worried about Zika at... wait a second

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A few days aga, @AiyarYamini wrote in The Economist about the shrinking space for independent civil society in India. Today the @CPR_India board accepted her resignation as CEO. Case in point.

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Some people like cute titles for econ papers, others hate them. Some prefer detailed, explanatory titles. But we all know the real power move is a 1-word title. 🧵

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Some progress. (Clockwise) 1. IMF managing director 2. World Bank CEO 3. World Bank chief economist 4. IMF chief economist

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3 years

Highly anticipated World Bank audit report is out. Finding: 9 of 15 staff members on the Doing Business team say management pressured them to manipulate data. 8 complied. (1/n)

Doing Business Data Corrections

World Bank Group Statement on Doing Business Data Corrections and Findings of Internal Audit

www.worldbank.org

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New from me: “How economists got Africa’s AIDS epidemic wrong” In the '00s, cost-effectiveness analysis said sending HIV drugs to low-income countries was a bad use of money--drugs that ended up saving millions of lives. Have we learned our lesson? 1/

How Economists got Africa’s AIDS Epidemic Wrong

In the 2000s, cost-effectiveness analysis said it was a bad use of money to send antiretroviral drugs to low-income countries—drugs that ended up saving millions of lives.

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5 years

Anybody else remember hearing stories from the late ‘00s about how many of the MIT PhD students didn’t want to take Duflo’s courses because she wasn’t a serious economist? Not enough math, yadda yadda. Perhaps apocryphal. In any case... Lol.

The Nobel Prize

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2019 Economic Sciences Laureate Esther Duflo, born in 1972, is the second woman and the youngest person to be awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences. #NobelFacts #NobelPrize

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"refugees pay $21,000 more in taxes than they receive in benefits over their first 20 years in the U.S."

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The Economic and Social Outcomes of Refugees in the United States: Evidence from the ACS

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What happened when India started feeding *100 million* school kids a day? ⬆️ School attendance ⬆️ Learning ⬇️ Malnutrition And now... ⬇️ Malnutrition among the kids of the kids who first got fed. ht @MilanV

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The Great Indian Poverty Debate, 2.0 A new World Bank paper says Indian poverty has fallen, but is higher than we thought. A rival study from India's IMF rep says India, like China, is approaching zero poverty. I tried to parse the debate: 1/

The Great Indian Poverty Debate, 2.0

Has the Modi government accelerated or decelerated poverty reduction? It’s hard to know, as India has effectively stopped measuring poverty. A new World Bank paper using private-sector survey data...

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World Bank 2002: Growth is good for the poor World Bank 2022: Reducing inequality is even better

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5 years

It's #WorldDiabetesDay My son got diagnosed with type 1 this summer. He's doing great. Bu while he was in the hospital, I read this line in a Lancet review that still haunts me. "In Mozambique, the life expectancy for a newly diagnosed child with type 1 diabetes is 7 months."

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Apologies, this one is a little dark. 1/

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The Heckman curve is dead. "In fact, the data don’t seem to support the claim that human capital investments are most effective when targeted at younger ages, and Heckman appears to agree with this" ht @leecrawfurd

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Big results from the 10-year follow-up to Banerjee-Duflo-Sharma's ultrapoor asset transfer experiment in West Bengal. 2 cows + 30 weeks of a subsistence stipend = 20% higher consumption a DECADE later.

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2 months

The Economist revisits the RCT wars

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4 years

Fucking hell. Is @DavidMalpassWBG honestly pushing structural adjustment measures as a condition for World Bank covid-19 relief money?

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4 years

The global misallocation of talent in one image

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10 months

🚨New Paper🚨 1/2 of kids in the developing world have elevated blood lead. That explains about 1/5th of the test score gap b/n rich & poor countries. FT coverage here: with @leecrawfurd @RoryTodd12 @susannahhares & @rsilv_dc

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Ok, here it is: The data manipulation scandal that could topple the heads of the World Bank and IMF, explained.

The Data Manipulation Scandal That Could Topple the Heads of the World Bank and IMF, Explained

As the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund kick off next week, the Bretton Woods institutions are mired in scandal. I want to set aside the broader political...

www.cgdev.org

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Good Ezra Klein piece on the withdrawal. Don't let the hawks claim the mantle of humanitarianism.

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Official GDP figures say India was the fastest growing major economy in the world last year. New household survey data, withheld by the gov't, say real per capita consumption *FELL* 3.7% over a 6-year period ending in 2017/18. Down 8.8% in rural areas. India is getting poorer.

Somesh Jha

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Another day, another hidden NSO (earlier known as NSSO) survey, another scoop. Consumer spending fell for the first time in more than four decades in 2017-18. Consumer spending had last declined during extraordinary events in India's history.

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No, I don't think global inequality is out of control, why do you ask?

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3 years

Cruel irony. The countries where people have the most faith in vaccines (LEFT, BLUE) are the countries last in line to get any (RIGHT, RED).

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4 years

RCT inception... Author: Abhijit Banerjee et al Treatment: Abhijit Banerjee

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A new paper of Abhijit Banerjee et al. on Covid19 messaging using the fame of Abhijit Banerjee in the experiment.

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2 years

The consolidation of the military industrial complex, from a recent DoD report.

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Wow. Results after 2 years from the first RCT of a large-scale government school feeding program in Africa show BIG benefits for poor kids: +.22 sd in height-for-age, +.33 sd in learning outcomes, $66/year by @ElisabettAurino et al.

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Afghanistan’s last finance minister, now a D.C. Uber driver, ponders what went wrong.

Afghanistan’s last finance minister, now a D.C. Uber driver, ponders what went wrong

Until last summer, Khalid Payenda was Afghanistan’s finance minister, overseeing a $6 billion budget.

www.washingtonpost.com

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6 years

Everything you know about cross-country convergence is (now) wrong. In which @dev_a_patel , @arvindsubraman , and I take issue with a new JEL review that seems to ignore the last quarter-century of economic growth. 1/

Everything You Know about Cross-Country Convergence Is (Now) Wrong

A quarter-century after the empirical growth literature set out to explain why poor countries aren’t catching up with rich ones, cross-country regressions have mercifully gone out of fashion. But in...

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For the past several months, I've participated in an 'External Review Panel' commissioned by the World Bank to look at the methodology behind Doing Business. We submitted our final report Sept 1st. The World Bank has finally released it today: 1/

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So Angus Deaton is now - pro-union - anti-trade, and - anti-immigration He says he has rethought his "ethical judgments about trade-offs between domestic and foreign workers."

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6 years

Sources of Africa's rising debt. Guess which color is China. by @gyude_moore

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"Feed all the kids, and let them go to school for free" No, really. Our new @CGDev report on the economics of achieving universal education in low- and lower-middle income countries.

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5 years

Progress! 2014: World Bank threatened to sue us for scraping the global poverty data. 2019: You can do the same thing straight from Stata and R.

Espen Beer Prydz

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We just released Stata and R packages for the PovcalNet API. Estimate poverty at any poverty line, for any country, or any group of countries. More about our latest data and tools:

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The World Bank says $50B could vaccinate the world. And yet for 8 months, it's failed to put up the cash. What went wrong? Quick thread on my new piece in @Nature world view: 1/

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Happy mother's day, America. (WTF is wrong with us?)

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Sept 16 2021: World Bank Group to Discontinue Doing Business Report  (!!!)

World Bank Group to Discontinue Doing Business Report 

The World Bank Group today issued a statement on the decision to discontinue Doing Business report.

www.worldbank.org

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3 years

We don't know how to build nations. We do know how to reduce infant and maternal mortality.

Grant Gordon

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"A study in The Lancet Global Health found that between 2003 and 2015, child mortality in Afghanistan fell by 29 percent. While maternal mortality is difficult to estimate, one data set found that deaths in childbirth fell [...] nearly in half."

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Academics should record audiobooks of their papers. I'm tired of listening to pop non-fiction books while I cook, clean, etc.

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"In the last 30 days did you go without eating for a whole day due to lack of money?" South Sudan: 73% DRC: 37% Nigeria: 33% Chad: 32% Daunting numbers from the World Bank's COVID-19 high-frequency phone surveys across dozens of countries.

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5 years

A clever test of ideological bias among economists. @JavdaniMohsen and Ha-Joon Chang ask economists whether they agree or not with quotes (mis-)attributed to more or less mainstream or heterodox figures. Blog: Paper:

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Sure, minimum wages can help low-wage workers in rich countries, but in developing economies they just exacerbate informality and reduce employment, right? New in the AER:

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The World Bank's Doing Business indicators *explicitly* penalize countries for a) having a minimum wage b) taxing corporations It's hardly news they're biased against left-leaning governments. But apparently World Bank went one step further.

Kevin Drum

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World Bank Gamed Data to Make Chile’s Socialist Party Look Bad

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The Africanization of global poverty [Or, how changing the order of a stacked area chart can really add emphasis.] World Bank, original: The Economist, revised

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2 years

Remember the Doing Business index? Yes, it died. Mostly due to the Kristalina Georgieva cooking the books for China thing. But data manipulation aside, was DB actually good for development? 🧵

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2 years

almost cute how many debates in the foreign aid industry reflexively assume a principal-agent setup where Western governments (P) have only the best interests of the world's poor at heart, but these conniving local elites (A) keep stymying our benevolent intentions.

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still just dumbstruck by this: World Bank faked Doing Business data to help Saudi Arabia because it "would not be credible if Jordan was the top reformer" having absorbed millions of refugees and whatnot. Dismembering journalists though: now that's a good business environment.

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6 years

Myth: Immigrants and refugees significantly undermine employment and wages in destination countries. See: Danish refugee influx Mariel boatlift Fall of the Berlin wall Bracero program

Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion

(June 2018) - An important class of active labor market policy has received little impact evaluation: immigration barriers intended to raise wages and employment by shrinking labor supply. Theories...

www.aeaweb.org

Rachel Glennerster

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I am collecting common myths about development and development economics. What are your favorites? Please include cites of evidence refuting them. (Myths and evidence may be descriptive or causal) Thanks and looking forward to the responses!

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4 years

Good academics never miss a chance to complicate a heartwarming story.

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4 years

After years studying the economics of education and charter schools and teacher incentives and yadda yadda, dawned on me today (with mild horror) that my worldview has basically come full circle to a bumpersticker I remember as a kid.

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Super interesting: The way we measure global poverty focuses -- inadvertently, but perhaps usefully -- pretty heavily on households' ability to cope with shocks, rather than their average income over the year. @Josh_Merfeld @JMorduch

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The best development reads of 2018 (A totally non-systematic review, unranked, with links to some of my own blog and twitter summaries of the papers.) 1/N

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2 years

oh no, chile's Doing Business score is doomed

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4 years

As a very privileged upper-middle-class white American, for whom politics has always been sort of an abstract interest, it is a new experience to feel -- in a tangible, day-to-day sense -- that the health and safety of your family is under assault from the federal government.

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The data just got disappeared.

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"It’s better to be a poor pupil in a rich country than the reverse" -- at least as far as test scores are concerned. @TheEconomist has a much prettier version of my favorite graph from our "Rosetta Stone" paper with @dev_a_patel .

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3 years

Who's excited to read a 2,500 word explainer of the Doing Business scandal?

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6 years

Who are the global top 1%? "The threshold for an individual to enter the global top 1% in 2012 is an annual income of about PPP $50,600 per capita" About 37% of those people live in the U.S., and about 4.6% in China. by Sudhir Anand & @pdsegal

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6 years

Why the World Bank Should Ditch the "Doing Business" Rankings—in One Embarrassing Chart

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4 years

Do you think the World Bank should lend money to governments that undermine democracy and human rights? Tuesday will see an interesting test case, with a board vote on $500m for Tanzania.

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6 years

Ignore the narrative. Say it with me: AMERICAN 👏SUPPORT 👏FOR 👏IMMIGRATION 👏 IS 👏AT 👏AN 👏ALL 👏TIME 👏HIGH ht @charlesjkenny

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4 years

Excellent idea! "World Bank staff call for canceling Spring Meetings — permanently" - 10,000 roundtrip flights - $57m to organize - Same CO2 as driving 17,000 cars for a year via @AlterIgoe

World Bank staff call for canceling Spring Meetings — permanently

The World Bank's staff association has called on the institution's leaders to cancel the Spring Meetings, both because of the coronavirus outbreak and because the meetings are "at odds with our...

www.devex.com

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6 years

Researchers discover 1 simple trick to promote assimilation of immigrants! (Give them citizenship.)

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5 years

Fun paper: behavioral econ games with World Bank and DFID staff finds... 1. they're irrationally biased against minimum wage laws. 2. subject to sunk cost fallacies when greenlighting disbursements for doomed projects 3. more risk averse professionally than personally

Varun Gauri

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Biased Policy Professionals - now published!

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Justin Sandefur

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Cosmetic tweet: We spent an embarrassingly long time formatting this simple graph. Always interesting to see the choices good data viz people make to improve your work. CGD blog vs The Economist

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3 years

The idea of being in Delhi right now, with parents dying for lack of oxygen, scrambling to exploit your social connections for a lead that'll keep them alive -- I've never lived through anything remotely like it, and yet it feels so terrifyingly relatable. Pure nightmare fuel.

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"Experimental evidence on scaling up education reforms in Kenya" @TessaBold 11 years after we started this project, and 5 years and multiple rejections after first submission, nice to see this finally in print. RIP @MwangiKimenyi 1956-2015

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4 years

This is long overdue. As background, a 🧵 of 🧵s on the Doing Business drama...

William Easterly

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World Bank suspends its Doing Business report while it investigates "A number of irregularities {that} have been reported regarding changes to the data"

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Two pretty damning RD graphs for AEA's 'chart of the week' from new Sheetal Sekhri paper: Getting into an elite college in India... 1. Doesn't improve your college exit-exam scores. 2. But does massively increase your salary.

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C'mon, you gotta love economists.

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We were nervous about Halloween, as Harry Potter got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes a few months ago. Solution: the Candy Fairy™. Leave your candy in the fireplace overnight and she converts it into Legos.

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Am I the only one who seems to find it impossible to concentrate on any one thing for more than 30 seconds now? (Down from my usual 60, maybe.) Strategies people are finding effective?

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What do empirical macroeconomists actually do? Decided I should read something by Emi Nakamura, and found this review a great intro for applied micro people. Fascinating intellectual history. ht @snaidunl

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5 years

AOC’s even writing our papers for us now. What can’t she do?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

5 years

Every Morehouse Class of 2019 student is getting their student debt load paid off by their commencement speaker. This could be the start of what’s known in Econ as a ‘natural experiment.’ Follow these students & compare their life choices w their peers over the next 10-15 years.

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RIP Benno Ndulu, 1950-2021 An intellectual giant in the economics of African development whose impact on the material well-being of millions of Tanzanians today is hard to quantify -- but also probably hard to overstate. 1/

Former Bank of Tanzania governor Benno Ndulu dies aged 71

He had been receiving treatment at Hubert Kairuki Memorial Hospital in Dar es Salaam.

www.theeastafrican.co.ke

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Ok, here’s the full, crazy story: “Is CGD Marxist? Responding to Red-Baiting from the World Bank”

Is CGD Marxist? Responding to Red-Baiting from the World Bank

While Djankov railed against our criticism of Doing Business’s ideological slant, he failed to respond whatsoever to the data-based, methodological points we raised about the Doing Business index....

www.cgdev.org

Dany Bahar 🌎

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On a panel today I literally had to stand up for colleagues I respect & admire at @CGDev after they were attacked by a World Bank official as "marxists", as a way to delegitimize their analysis. If you're unwilling to respectfully engage with criticism, stay home.

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3 years

Interesting post from one of our biggest funders here at the, erm, Center for Global Development…

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🚨 New RCT results 🚨 "Beyond Short-term Learning Gains: The Impact of Outsourcing Schools in Liberia after Three Years" -- by @marome1 and me. Working paper: Policy brief: Thread: 1/

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Justin Sandefur

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4 years

Easterly on Sachs — I feel young again! Gonna listen to Outkast and watch some Friends.

William Easterly

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New study finds that Jeff Sachs' Millennium Village in northern Ghana had small or null effects; the Big Push did not appear to break the Poverty Trap HT @m_clem

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The revenge of the places that don't matter ht @paulkrugman -- Economies tend toward agglomeration. -- Politics are often built on territorial representation. -- Result: the train wreck of current politics.

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The IMF's covid-19 policy response tracker is impressive. Country by country: - Fiscal stimulus (% GDP,) - Monetary policy reaction - Any exchange rate intervention ht @lhmosco

Policy Responses to COVID19

This policy tracker summarizes the key economic responses governments are taking to limit the human and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

www.imf.org

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Justin Sandefur

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Top research accomplishments in the 2010s: 1. Failed to resubmit an R&R from the '00s. Officially letting it go. 2. Missed an R&R by a year in my spam folder. 3. Have yet to submit papers from 2 RCTs in 1st half of decade. 4. Published a paper started in 2007...in 2018.

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Most U.S. foreign aid doesn't go to foreigners -- at least not directly. I dig into the numbers on how USAID can change that. 1/n

USAID Localization by the Numbers

Foreigners don’t receive much of America’s $35 billion annual foreign aid budget, at least not directly. Less than ten percent goes to local charities, companies, or governments in developing...

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Justin Sandefur

@JustinSandefur

3 years

How many people have died in India during the pandemic? There's no truly satisfactory answer. @abhishekecon @arvindsubraman and I have a new paper presenting 3 alternative estimates from 3 different sources, and discussing flaws of each. 1/

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Justin Sandefur

@JustinSandefur

6 years

Angus Deaton and the Location of Poverty -- @charlesjkenny and me

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Justin Sandefur

@JustinSandefur

3 years

Tale of two pandemics: - American poverty is reaching historic lows. - Global poverty is rising for the first time in decades.

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Justin Sandefur

@JustinSandefur

2 years

Amazing stat from Bangladesh: 64% of Rohingya refugees are willing to forego cash transfers in order to keep working part time for the same amount of money. ht @svrozo

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Justin Sandefur

@JustinSandefur

4 years

25 African countries spend more on debt service payments than healthcare. Good piece by @KevinAtSave in the IMF's F&D magazine. ht @a_presbitero

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Justin Sandefur

@JustinSandefur

2 years

Forthcoming in the AER: Why don't Ugandan farmers produce higher quality maize? It pays zero economic return. Training doesn't help. But create a market for quality and farmers will supply it and reap big gains.

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Justin Sandefur

@JustinSandefur

3 years

88% of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grants over past 2 decades—$63 billion—have gone to recipients in the US, Canada, Australia, and Europe.

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Justin Sandefur

@JustinSandefur

3 years

A classic tale in 3 tweets

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Justin Sandefur

@JustinSandefur

5 years

From 1999 to 2009, China increased post-secondary enrollment by 6-fold (!) and raised the share of the urban labor force with a college degree by 60%. Wage returns to college didn't fall. #skillbiasedtechnicalchange ht @hceconomics

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Justin Sandefur

@JustinSandefur

6 months

East Africa divergence…. In USD terms, Kenya per capita GDP is roughly x2 Tanzania’s, which is roughly x2 Malawi’s. In 2003 they were nearly identical.

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Justin Sandefur

@JustinSandefur

5 years

Has anybody checked on Angus Deaton?

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