Thursday, December 21, 2006

Did IMF bring down Suharto?

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“Women in Islamic dress had staged pro-IMF demonstrations; they had been out there with placards reading, IMPLEMENT THE IMF PACKAGE! In the ...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

The Role of Parliaments in Curbing Corruption

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A new publication from the World Bank, The Role of Parliaments in Curbing Corruption Edited by Rick Stapenhurst , Niall Johnston , Riccardo...

IMF Happy with UK

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United Kingdom—2006 Article IV Consultation Concluding Statement from the Fund is out. On public finances it says; “ Continued fiscal restr...

Learning from Athens

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Interesting article on the Athenian democracy ; “The fifth-century B.C. historian Herodotus records the key meeting of the Athenian Assembl...

Tax and Fertility

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Interesting working paper, The Earned Income Tax Credit and Fertility by Reagan Baughman and Stacy Dickert-Conlin . Below is the abstract; ...
Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Middle East Fact of the Day

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“According to a 2005 World Bank report, Finland, with a population of about 5 million, has more non-oil exports than the entire MENA region,...

Freereads from The Economist

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Happiness and economics-Economics discovers its feelings Pushtunwali-Honour among them The art of conversation -Chattering classes Cured mea...

The electrical siege of Baghdad

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"Last week even the official United States State Department figures, which many Iraqis contend lean toward the optimistic side, said th...

The Art of Demotivation

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Talk of the Day; interview with Dr. EL Kristen ; ‘Recent data says that people are increasingly unhappy with their jobs. The root of the pro...

Dropping Dollar Debate

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Go and read the latest Econoblog at WSJ; Dollars, Debt and the Trade Gap, Thoughts on the Dropping Dollar . The debaters are Manzie Chinn an...

Large Current Account Deficits and Currency Boards

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A new working paper from IMF on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s trade balance and discusses the trade-offs between monetary and fiscal policy need...

Congratulations to Seychelles!

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Seychelles has started participating in the International Monetary Fund's General Data Dissemination System; Mr. Danny Faure, the Gover...
Monday, December 18, 2006

This & That Assorted

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Some links worth having a look; What Should a Billionaire Give – and What Should You? A Speculator’s Guide on What’s Happening in Putin’s Ru...

International Migrants Day

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December 18th is the International Migrants Day. Best wishes to the 191 million migrants worldwide. Via UN Pulse . Related; Migration data f...

Quote of the Day

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" I would suggest that the rate at which countries grow is substantially determined by three things: their ability to integrate with th...

Where are they now?

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Map of the day; the location of US nuclear weapons - via Strategic Security Blog

Econ Talks from Australia

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Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1996 to September 2006, Ian Macfarlane gave recently a series of lectures on how the develope...

Beverly Hills of Moscow

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A place where flats can cost several million dollars; “Ostozhenka (pronounced ahs-TO-zhen-ka), once home to many artists and intellectuals,...

Google Patent Search

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An interesting new feature from Google- Patent Search . I tried a couple of items; Economics Teaching Device Apparatus For Illustrating Econ...
Sunday, December 17, 2006

Two Working Papers from the World Bank

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The economics of consanguineous marriages ; The institution of consanguineous marriage-a marriage contracted between close biological relati...

How Democracy Affects Growth

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An interesting working paper Romain Wacziarg - abstract below; "This paper introduces a new methodology to examine the empirical relati...

Did Darwin Support Genocide?

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“While the 'Beagle' was anchored off Patagonia for much of 1833 he rode inland and came face to face with the Spanish policy towards...
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Why Laughter is Infectious

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Infectious laughter seems to have a neurological basis ; “The team of played pleasant sounds, such as laughter or cheering, and unpleasant s...

Inside the Mind of the Art Criminals

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NYT Magazine has an interesting profile of Noah Charney who’s completing a PhD in history of art theft; “Charney is completing a doctorate ...
Saturday, December 16, 2006

Iraq Study Group of Bloggers

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Over at Glittering Eye a blogging colloquium has been announced titled “Directions on Iraq: a Blogging Colloquium”. Participants include Ja...

Persistence of Inefficient States

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An interesting paper by Daron Acemoglu , Davide Ticchi, Andrea Vindigni- abstract below; “Inefficiencies in the bureaucratic organization o...

Have your PC become a Zombie?

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Your computer could be a Zombie ; "One of the most active categories of malicious software threatening Internet users today is remote c...

I, Ipod

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“Take just one component of the iPod nano , the central microchip provided by the U.S. company PortalPlayer . The core technology of the chi...

Assorted Talks

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Indian Maths – So how were these advances passed on to the rest of the world? And why was the contribution of mathematicians from this area...

Living at Charles de Gaulle Airport since 1988

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" Mehran Karimi Nasseri , also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran (yes, including the comma), is an Iranian refugee who has been living in the...

Demand and Supply of Governance

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Some courageous Kenyans are doing something about the political corruption in the country; Mzalendo is a volunteer run project whose missio...

How can Export Success be Bad for a Country

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An interesting working paper on German export boom; The Pathological Export Boom and the Bazaar Effect - How to Solve the German Puzzle by ...
Friday, December 15, 2006

Markets in Everything?

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Organ tourism and poverty in Pakistan; "Each year hundreds of kidneys are sold to patients who come from abroad, to so called 'org...
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The Inconvenient Truth

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There will be no ice in the Arctic by 2040 . The research team points to several reasons for the abrupt loss of ice in a gradually warming w...

Infrastructure and Corruption

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Some policy implications about reducing corruption in infrastructure projects from a recent working paper by Charles Kenny ; “A lens that fo...

China and India: Learning from Each Other

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A book forum discussing the following two books from the Fund is now online; India Goes Global: Its Expanding Role in the World Economy Chi...

Why the name Marshall Jevons?

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The author(s) of this blog selected the name as a parody of the real Marshall Jevons . The three small detective stories by William Breit an...

'Real' and 'Fake' Marshall Jevons?

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Over at Marginal Revolution , there have been some speculation going about the author(s) of this blog. Let me assure our readers that the au...

Nigeria Fact of the Day

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"So lucrative is public office here that even in a backwater like Ekiti, a state of only 2 million people in a nation of 130 million, t...

Development Quote of the Day

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I think this passionate consultant from the Caribbean makes a lot of sense; “The problem is that we mistake that importance of technical ab...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

Freakonomics Overrated?

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Diane Coyle thinks Freakonomics is overrated; Freakonomics , by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner (Penguin). Economics as freak show. De...

Assorted Interesting Maths

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Links to some interesting statistics related columns and blog posts; How Many Kids Have Autism? Several skeptical Numbers Guy readers have s...