Posts Tagged ‘health’
India’s emerging challenge
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4 Sep 2013This is my Perspective column from this week’s Fund Strategy magazine. An important side effect of the debate about “tapering” by America’s Federal Reserve is heighted concern about emerging economies. It is widely argued that as the developed economies start to recover their emerging counterparts could falter. As it happens a western recovery is still […]
- Tags: Asia, development, economics, Fund Strategy, growth, health
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
Visualising human progress
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7 Dec 2010Hans Rosling, professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, shows how economic growth is strongly associated with rising life expectancy over the longer term (see 13 June 2010 post for more on Gapminder). His BBC 4 documentary on the Joy of Stats is broadcast today in Britain.
Reports of note – and videos
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28 Nov 2010Some useful recent reports – all to be taken critically. From austerity to prosperity: Seven priorities for the long term. McKinsey. New times, new connections: civil society action on climate change, Green Alliance, by Faye Scott. The State of African Cities 2010: Governance, Inequalities and Urban Land Markets, UN-Habitat. World Energy Outlook 2010. International Energy […]
Articles of note
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16 Nov 2010Ireland still has the power to make itself a country worth living in, the Observer, by Fintan O’Toole. The assistant editor of the Irish Times argues the Ireland should embrace “ethical austerity”. I suspect that will be even more painful than regular austerity. Government ‘planning to measure people’s happiness‘, BBC. For a critique of this […]
Articles of note
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17 Oct 2010Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium, Telegraph, by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. Evidently Carlo Rubbia, a Nobel laureate, is working on thorium as a clean, cheap and safe alternative to uranium in reactors. Are cattle an endangered species?, Rational Optimist, by Matt Ridley. The author finds that one of the plants designated […]
- Tags: articles of note, consumption, development, economics, energy, health, science, technology
Celebrate fertility medicine Nobel
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5 Oct 2010Robert Edwards, one of the inventors of IVF (in vitro fertilisation) technology, is a worthy winner of this year’s Nobel prize for medicine. Thanks to his efforts, and those of his research partner Patrick Steptoe who died in 1988, some four million extra infants have already been born to couples with fertility problems since 1978. […]
- Tags: health, Malthus, science, technology
Turning inequality therapeutic
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15 Aug 2010Michael Marmot – one of the world’s leading experts on health inequalities – exhibits the redefinition of inequality in therapeutic terms in an article in today’s Observer. * First, he makes the correct observation that the poor tend to suffer more from ill-health than the rich. * Then he argues it is necessary to get […]
- Tags: development, health, inequality
Articles of note – science
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18 Jul 2010These article focus on science and the environment. Green menace, the American, by Blake Hurst. How a coalition of Haitian peasant groups – backed by American funding – are protesting against seeds donated by Monsanto to kick start food production in Haiti. Not even just genetically modified seeds but hybrid seeds too – a technology […]
- Tags: articles of note, climate, consumption, energy, environment, food, health, technology
Articles of note
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13 Jun 2010Environmentalism is the preserve of the rich, Forbes, by John Tamny. The power of numbers, Economist. On the debate about statistics showing falling infant mortality. German government agrees historic austerity program, Der Spiegel. The politically incorrect guide to ending poverty, the Atlantic, by Sebastian Mallaby. On Paul Romer’s proposal for charter cities. Funding crisis for […]
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