By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor Wow! Busy week. Some states are opening, some states are dragging their feet, the stock market is climbing, employment is rocketing back up but people are still social distancing unless they’re protesting. And, in the true American spirit, some people just have never stopped working through it all, […]
Tag: public sector
Washington Beyond the Headlines: Admin Has Chopped 570 Regulations
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor America is opening up! Kind of. Different states, curiously reflecting their red/blue political leadership, are opening at different paces. Except, of course, for the House of Representatives which apparently feels that the best way to represent the American people is to not go to work. Oh well, that’s […]
Are women more willing to accept jobs with lower pay?
“Are women more willing to accept jobs with lower pay?” Courtesy of IZA Few topics in labor economics have received more attention in academic, public and policy debates than the gender pay gap. The IZA Newsroom frequently summarizes new research findings on various drivers of the gap, including the role of discrimination vs. structural differences, […]
Bilateral development finance is basically just commercial EM investment
By Adrian Fielding, TES Contributor In a job interview in 2015 with a development finance institution (DFI) that will remain unnamed, my response to the question ‘what do you think we do here?’ went something like this: development finance institutions’ raison d’être is the de-risking of potentially highly-transformational projects or the financing of […]