IRAN'S MEHR NEWS AGENCY SAYS IRANIAN AMBASSADOR TO LEBANON MOJTABA AMANI WAS INJURED BY PAGER EXPLOSION - Reuters News

Jostein Hauge How does this square with the fact that the OECD countries constitute a major share of global demand for manufactures exports from the Global South, whilst China imports primarily commodities from the Global South, and imports almost no manufactures from the GS?

Pseudoerasmus Good point, and I think the key variable to explore here is China, because in some way it fits into the poor/periphery category but in other ways it fits into the rich/core category.

THREAD: Israel's unprecedented and highly sophisticated security operation today in which almost 3000 people have been injured so far, is by all means a massive blow to Hizbullah. This is all more so the case given that Hizbullah has always credited its performance in the July

You don’t even have to go below upper quintile (my “new first tier city” relatives are probably bottom half of this bucket) to find people who are pretty happy. It also depends on if they are in business for themselves, in a sunset industry, or aspire to much greater wealth.

In other words, we do not engage as many people do in dubious inventions of their own (mostly fantasy) data like estimating GDP from space stations, or guessing income distribution from satellites.

UN confirms that Maduro is committing human rights violations in Venezuela and that there is a “continuous plan to silence, discourage, and repress” critics of his regime

>le rote learning is responsible for not high enough package What does an Amazon/Google SDE getting paid 30-40 LPA do? I've worked in an MNC and know how much work there is to actually do for an average SDE. Engineers at oil refineries and nuclear reactors get paid ₹56100.

Honestly, it is not mind-boggling considering other issues where the US has sought India’s compliance of late. Some are done publicly, others are done behind the scenes. Getting more brazen by the day; probably a result of developing some taste of success in recent dealings.

Tough situation for Hezbollah. They’ve been humiliated by this gigantic infiltration operation (most likely due to their own failures if it was supply chain attack) and need to respond to save face. But they have no means of responding absent starting a major war they don’t want.

According to Israeli Channel 14; Senior Israeli Military Officials are preparing for a 3rd Hezbollah War which is expected to begin almost Immediately.

what the hezbollah pager incident taught me about b2b saas 👇

constructing the historical electricity production by regressing urbanization level on electricity production and adding regional and country fixed effects.

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BTW, this is also true in terms of GDP per capita and is very clear if we adjust the 2021 World Bank benchmark using physical data on Chinese consumption (which raises Chinese GDP by 40%). Note: economic historians have estimated the annual GDP time series for China down to 1840

the Anglo-Saxons had a lot of slaves. Normans abolished it