The West has no clue how far it fell behind. For example, how long does it take to build a train station? 🇨🇳: 9 hours 🇨🇦: 7 years snd counting, and no sign of a station exists. <thread> 🧵👇

Excited to be at Evaluation Headlines annual conference in New Orleans! Great choice to have a longer lunch break at this year's sessions

The Federal Reserve 2% inflation target is no longer credible. De-globalization, the transition to alternative energy, the need to pay workers more, lower-risk, shorter supply chains are all inflationary. The Fed cannot change its target now, but will likely do so in the future.

This study's findings are really relevant for organizational design.

What are your favorite, relatively recent development-related nonfiction books? Bonus points if by an author from and/or based in the Global South. (No edited volumes. Define development as you wish and broadly.)

The link from Henry VIII to the Industrial Revolution. The monasteries dissolved in 1536 had no feudal lords, so the farmers that occupied them became the gentry who led to innovation & reform More monasteries in an area= more factories 3 centuries later. scholar.harvard.edu/files/jrobinso…

I'd like to tell you about one of the biggest and most effortful studies on behavior change ever conducted and its strange findings (that may not even be obvious if you read the paper - I only realized its implications on my 2nd reading!) Let's begin: [study megathread]🧵

Amen. This is a problem affecting most sectors of the Canadian economy. Let's change this.

Classic case study of American vs. Canadian customer service. Call ADP USA to make an account change and I have the forms I need emailed to me in 5 minutes. Call ADP Canada and have the complete opposite experience. Not helpful, won't help find a solution, surly, etc.

Today the U.S. can produce around 30,000 artillery shells a month. In 1995 the army could produce 867,000 shells a month. gao.gov/assets/nsiad-9…

An OPEC-style coffee “cartel” would have far more bargaining power on prices and tariffs vis-à-vis the Global North, points out @SNUnow's Keun Lee. bit.ly/3tLytKl

A dramatic drop from when I left Canada but something I've been sensing when I return. Feels tragic

1/ VF: “In Canada, a government lab’s decision to ship Ebola samples to the WIV set off a scandal that resounded all the way to the office of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and played a role in the dissolution of parliament in the fall of 2021.” #cdnpoli vanityfair.com/news/2023/11/c…

From the outside, The Well in Toronto looks like any old condo building. Inside is a dense, mixed use, liveable community and shopping centre that all cities can learn from. 🧵Bookmark this thread for inspiration next time your city wants to build a strip mall near downtown.

34. Our social hierarchies select for high ambition low curiosity people. Productive, socially intelligent, people on the top tend to be shockingly narrow minded They can't think out of the box, because they don't have out of the box knowledge. They never had time to acquire it

How many people make it through each day of Replit's online 100 Days of Code tutorial.

Canada has not gained "a single thing of tangible value" for US$159.2 million purchase of shares in Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, says Canadian who worked as senior exec. blacklocks.ca/chinese-bank-d… #cdnpoli Bob Pickard

Love the frankness in your testimony Charles Burton! A definite breath of fresh air. The lack of awareness of or concern about the problem is the most worrying part for me.

Geopolitics is not the only reason investors are leaving China, it’s simply much cheaper to produce in other countries