Posts Tagged ‘development’
Bad news for the world economy
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12 Feb 2013Some seriously bad news broke last week yet it received a tiny fraction of the attention the British media devoted to horsemeat. It looks like Indian economic growth is slowing down. This trend has serious implications not only for India’s population of 1.2 billion but for the entire world economy. According to figures from the […]
- Tags: Asia, development, economics, Fund Strategy, growth, india
Global Trends 2030
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28 Jan 2013This is my Perspective column from this week’s Fund Strategy magazine. What will the world look like in 2030? A recent report on the subject written by American intelligence analysts should also be of interest to investment professionals. Global Trends 2030 was produced by the National Intelligence Council. The organisation’s mission is to provide strategic […]
- Tags: America, development, Fund Strategy, inequality
Asia’s geopolitical flashpoints
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2 Jan 2013This is a feature I wrote for the January issue of IPE (Investment & Pensions Europe) magazine. Asia has more actual and potential flashpoints than a public fireworks display. Simply listing them all would take up a large part of this article. They range from long-standing military enmities, such as the conflict between the two Koreas, […]
- Tags: Asia, china, development, economics, finance
Global view yields different results
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24 Jul 2012This is my latest Perspective column for Fund Strategy magazine. Sometimes, the conventional assumptions used to examine economic problems are misleading. A different approach would lead to radically different conclusions. Take the economic plight currently plaguing the developed world. One key convention is to look at domestic economies first before modifying the analysis to take […]
- Tags: America, Britain, development, Fund Strategy, growth
Marco Visscher on the randomistas
31 Mar 2012Marco Visscher has quoted me in an article in Ode magazine on the “randomistas”. In Dutch but worth putting through an electronic translator. The randomistas are development economists who focus their work on doing randomised control trials of different development projects. For example, trying to work out how to bolster school attendance or get people […]
- Tags: development, health, media appearances
Highlights of my Australian tour
24 Mar 2012For those who are interested here are the details of my recent Australian tour. I was invited by World Vision Australia, a worldwide community development organisation with a Christian ethos, to speak at one of the One Just World forums it organises across Australia with the International Women’s Development Agency and AusAid. Given I was […]
- Tags: Australia, china, development, economics, Europe, media appearances, speeches
Why westerners dislike Singapore
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24 Mar 2012This blog post was first published on Fundweb on 12 March. I have often wondered why so many western tourists say they dislike Singapore. They complain about what they see as its conformism and petty authoritarianism. Now I think I know the real reason they react against the place. It is hard not to see […]
- Tags: Asia, development, economics, environment, Fund Strategy
Great news on global poverty
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23 Mar 2012This is my Perspective column for 12 March. More material from Fund Strategy will be posted over the next few days. How about some good news for a change? In fact some brilliant news. The number of people living in extreme poverty in the world is steadily falling. This trend is clearly welcome to the […]
- Tags: development, economics, Fund Strategy, inequality
Book review translated into Swedish
21 Nov 2011Voltaire, a Swedish magazine, has published a translation of my recent spiked review of Charles Kenny’s Getting Better.
- Tags: development, economics, inequality, media appearances, review, spiked
Me vs “Small is beautiful”
16 Nov 2011I have an article in the Guardian’s “big ideas” series on EF Schumacher’s notion of “small is beautiful”.
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