From Our World in Data, Max Roser on world poverty. Seven-in-ten people globally live on $10 or less per day. Dylan Matthews on a chart that shows one of humanity’s greatest modern accomplishments. Era Dabla-Norris, Kalpana Kochhar, and Evridiki Tsounta on growth’s secret weapon: The poor and the middle class. The IMF blasts “trickle-down” economics. Justin Fox on how it’s often a curse to be blessed with commodities. Dani Rodrik on back to fundamentals in emerging markets. James Kynge and Jonathan Wheatley on redrawing the world map: The term “emerging markets” has become obsolete, say critics, as developing markets overtake developed ones in some areas (and more and more and more).
Paul Cammack (CUHK): The Multilateral Development Banks and the Global Political Economy. Dear governments and aid agencies: Please stop hurting poor people with your skills training programs.What would happen if the aid industry started collecting data on how the people it serves actually feel about their lives? Don’t teach a man to fish — just give him the goddamn fish. Do-gooders, do no harm: What are the best–and worst–ways to help those mired in international conflicts? The militarization of development aid: Rafia Zakaria on how war makes USAID a dirty word. Tim Kovach on how the way we give disaster aid to poor countries makes no sense. Improving humanitarian aid: David Miliband and Ravi Gurumurthy on how to make relief more efficient and effective. Chris Blattman on the case for upending humanitarian aid as we know it — and is this the most effective development program in history?
Antonios Tzanakopoulos (Oxford): The Right to Be Free from Economic Coercion. Out of Sight: Erik Loomis on the labor abuses behind what we eat. In the global apparel industry, abusive and deadly working conditions are still the norm. The sweatshop feminists: Hester Eisenstein on how global elites have appropriated feminist language to justify brutal exploitation and neoliberal development. Charles Kenny and Sarah Dykstra on advancing a gender-based development agenda. Great Gatsby Revisited: Justin Sandefur on how inequality explains learning outcomes around the world. Ricardo Hausmann on the education myth. Sarah Baird, Joan Hamory Hicks, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel on mass deworming: (Still) a best buy for international development. Mapping the Worm Wars: Michael Clemens and Justin Sandefur on what the public should take away from the scientific debate about mass deworming.
Yuen Yuen Ang (Michigan): Which Comes First in Development, State Capacity or Economic Growth? John Gerring and Matthew Maguire (BU), Carl Henrik Knutsen (Oslo), Svend-Erik Skaaning (Aarhus), Jan Teorell (Lund), Michael Coppedge (Notre Dame), and Staffan I. Lindberg (Gothenburg): Electoral Democracy and Human Development. Ziya Onis (Koc): Democracy in Uncertain Times: Globalization, Inequality and the Prospects for Democratic Development in the Global South. Malcolm Langford (Oslo): Rights, Development and Critical Modernity. Dietz Vollrath on dumb luck in historical development. What goals should guide international development? Miriam Kelberg wants to know. Mark Suzman on how the sustainable development goals can be made to work for the world’s poorest (and more and more). Jonah Busch on climate change and development in three charts.
