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New poverty numbers just released by the World Bank. The world poverty rate fell from 36% in 1990 to 9% in 2017. HT Justin Sandefur

Doesn’t everyone have a reasonable excuse to leave Britain? itv.com/news/2021-03-2…

Does something like a “lockdown liver” exist?

Extra funding, good policies, randomized control trials to discover what works...the one thing analysts refuse to examine in depth is how theft by political leaders & government officials and predatory lending by development partners undermines all interventions. William Easterly

The different names of Boda Bodas in Africa. Via @tomcourtright.bsky.social.

“The economics of poverty” by Martin Ravallion. Recommended for holiday reading, anyone?

This brilliant satire of international development by “Mzungus in Development and Governments” deserves to be more widely read. It’s funny, incisive and uncomfortable - which means that it hits at the truth. Worth at least 5 Escobars mdgcomics.com/phdcomic/

New article on impacts of COVID in developing countries now out. authors.elsevier.com/a/1eass,6yxDKq…

Russia invades a European country. European countries react by banning Russia from Eurovision…😳😳

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/05/03…. Euhmm, did he forgot to do so 2 months ago??

Karl seems quite happy with his holiday reading…

#Zuku internet so bad you can’t even run a speed test ZukuOfficial

Where are we on Climate Change? Mike Greenstone UChicago Economics gave a great talk @chicagobooth. I will post a few of his charts. 1. Including battery back-up, cost of electricity from renewables is 3x/4x more expensive than from fossil fuels.

Sustained #poverty reduction requires investing in households' resilience in the face of #climate-related shocks. In #Kenya, climate shocks are more likely to affect the arid and semi-arid regions in the north and northeast—where poverty is already the highest and households

DOYO: Halt Nairobi-Mombasa Expressway plans and evaluate economic value businessdailyafrica.com/bd/opinion-ana…

If the best parts of the minister were upstairs, not in his middle, we would tell him and he’d understand that hunger in a country like Uganda is a distribution/market problem. It presumes food availability elsewhere in the same market. I suspect he would burst from the

Economic #growth has a heterogeneous effect on poverty reduction How much have poor households benefited from growth in Sub-Saharan #Africa? Using a sample of 575 successive and comparable growth spells between 1981 and 2021, this World Bank Policy Research Working Paper by

On the link between economic growth and poverty reduction in Africa: blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/econ….

GDP per sqkm