Posts Tagged ‘development’
Debate in Durham
5 Feb 2019I will be debating the efficacy of trade versus aid in development at the Durham Union Society this coming Friday.
- Tags: development, speeches, trade
Battle of Ideas debates
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20 Sep 2018I am delighted to be speaking at two sessions at this year’s Battle of Ideas festival in London on the weekend of 13-14 October. At 10am on Sunday 14th I will be talking about big business in the developing world. Then at 12 noon there will be session on 10 years after the financial crisis. […]
- Tags: development, economics, finance, speeches
Latest FT book review
11 Mar 2017Yesterday the Financial Times published my review of JC Sharman’s The Despot’s Guide to Wealth Management. Ever thought who the fellow customers of your bank might be? No doubt the vast majority are decent, hard-working people but could they include foreign leaders who have embezzled many millions from their impoverished countries? Nowadays it is unlikely […]
- Tags: book, development, globalisation, inequality, media appearances, review
The world still needs fossil fuels
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8 May 2016This is my latest comment for IPE magazine. It is a tragedy that a basic truth has been forgotten. The world is going to need huge amounts more energy for everyone to achieve reasonable living standards. Recent World Bank statistics on global poverty make sobering reading. The trend is improving over time, but, in 2012, […]
- Tags: development, economics, energy, inequality
FT review of Peter Singer on famine
5 Dec 2015This is my book review from yesterday’s FT. What would you do if you were walking past a shallow pond in which a small child was drowning? There can be little doubt that the vast majority of people would wade in to save the child even if it came at the relatively trivial cost of […]
- Tags: book, china, development, inequality, media appearances, review
Debating the development goals
14 Oct 2015I will be speaking at an extra Battle of Ideas session on whether we need the new Sustainable Sevelopment Goals from the United Nations at 4pm this coming Saturday.
- Tags: development, economics, speeches
Rich People, Poor Countries
19 Sep 2015This is my latest book review for the Financial Times. It is hard to imagine how the rapid development of many poorer economies in recent decades could have happened without the emergence of super-rich individuals. No doubt for most Financial Times readers the two go together. The rise of popular prosperity depends on the vibrancy of […]
- Tags: climate, development, economics, inequality, media appearances, review
Multimedia links
10 Jul 2015The debate on social justice I participated in this week at the City of London Festival is now available to listen to as a podcast. It is also appropriately topical that my debate on European austerity from last year’s Battle of Ideas is now available to watch on video.
- Tags: development, environment, Europe, inequality, radio, speeches, television, Worldwrite
A crack in the global order
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3 Jul 2015While most European eyes are focused on Greece’s economic turmoil a potentially more significant development is unfolding on the other side of the world. In Beijing delegates from 50 countries have recently attended the signing ceremony of the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. The bank will lend billions of dollars to help develop Asian infrastructure but […]
- Tags: America, china, development, economics, finance, Fund Strategy
Debating social justice
24 Jun 2015I will be debating social justice at 6.30pm on 6 July at the Bishopsgate Institute as part of the annual City of London Festival.
- Tags: consumption, development, economics, inequality, speeches
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