Global Developments
Oliver KimEconomic development and poverty, past and present.
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Review: How Africa Works
How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier, by Joe Studwell. Atlantic Monthly Press. 2026.
When Joe Studwell’s How Asia Works came out in 2013, it was a book deeply out of consensus. In an age of rando...
Twilight of the Econs?
Ragnarök, painting by Emil Doepler. Source.
A story getting covered in The New York Times is usually a lagging indicator: a good way to learn that something horrible has happened, long after you could conceivably profit from the news.
So...
Quick Post: Whither Central Bank Independence?
During my PhD, a recurrent complaint I had when studying Macroeconomics was that it really should be called Rich World Macro. Independent central banks, solidly anchored inflation expectations, and the steady rule of law are institutions pa...
Does China Underconsume?
A Chinese resident over-consumes.
It’s now become an economic truism that China underconsumes: that Chinese households consume far less than those from countries with similar incomes.
Here’s the problem, illustrated in this New York Fed g...
Indonesia Climbs the Chain
Nickel mine in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Source.
The “Global Value Chain” is now an exhausted metaphor, but it’s worth reminding ourselves now and then what it means in human terms.
At the bottom are the raw materials producers, among them the...
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