“Global wealth inequality has declined since 2000” Jørgen Sloth and Thomas Due Bostrup, courtesy of CEPOS Summary and commentary This analysis is about the evolution of global inequality. Among other things, it shows that wealth inequality has decreased over the past 20 years. Thus, the richest 10 per cent share of global wealth has fallen […]
Tag: development
Green Deal doesn’t go far enough
“The European Green Deal – good intentions that won’t go far” By Roman Stöllinger and Michael Landesmann, courtesy of WIIW Designing the European Green Deal, which aims to realise the ecological transformation of the EU economy as the trading bloc’s growth strategy, is the right move at the right time. It sends a clear signal: […]
Rwanda’s lessons on gender equality, public health, and development
“Women Leaders in Global Health 2019: Powerful Lessons from Kigali” By Dr. Nicole de Paula, courtesy of IASS Potsdam Rwandans are a testimony to human resilience. Following the country’s darkest times, when around 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by ethnic Hutu extremists during the 1994 genocide, Rwanda has emerged as the “Switzerland of Africa”. […]
To fight entrenched poverty, Egypt MUST reform
“Why Egypt is not on a path to end its long struggle with poverty” By Mahmoud Farouk, courtesy of Atlas Network In 1979, Fouad Ajami wrote that Egypt finds herself between her “pride and place, between her limited material resources and her unbounded psychological esteem for herself, between her old glory and her current poverty.” […]
Is there a more rational (and humane) way to evaluate development outcomes?
“Alternatives to the New Scientism in Development Economics” By Matt Warner, courtesy of Atlas Network When Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo were announced as two of this year’s Nobel Prize winners, it prompted a fresh flurry of public critiques of their work in development economics. From voices as diverse as Oxfam’s Duncan Green […]
Guess who’s at the bottom of the Property Rights Index
The Property Rights Alliance has released the latest edition of its annual Property Rights Index, rating countries on various metrics for property rights protections. Produced in partnership with the Foundation for Economic Freedom and Minimal Government Thinkers, a think tank in the Philippines, the index […]
Feds back down on private property grab
The U.S. federal government is not known for dialing back its authority or admitting defeat in cases with its own citizens — but this rarest of events has apparently come to pass in Louisiana, where the feds have given up on a sweeping land […]
Nigerian democracy is in trouble
One of the most surprising and promising political developments of recent decades has been the rise of democracy across Africa, holding out hope that the rule of law, investment and economic growth would soon follow. But these young democracies remain fragile, and nowhere is the […]
Solutions to Disease and Poverty Begin at Home
By Richard Tren, TES Contributor Recently news broke about a potentially promising new tool to combat malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases. Researchers from the University of Maryland in the United States, in collaboration with a research institute in Burkina Faso, have discovered a new genetically modified fungus that kills mosquitoes […]
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 […]