In a new IMF paper, Jonathan D. Ostry, Andrew Berg, and Charalambos G. Tsangarides look into historical data to explore the relationship between inequality, redistribution, and growth and find little evidence of a “big tradeoff” between redistribution and growth.
Robert Chambers of IDS comments on the forthcoming World Development Report (WDR) 2015: Mind and Culture. He raises some important points on participatory thinking.
Trouble ensues when UCLA psychologist Joe Henrich steps into economics territory. Article by Ethan Watter for the Pacific Standard.
In an essay style report, The Economist discusses why democracy run into trouble, and what can be done to revive it?
ABCDE 2014, "The Role of Theory in Development Economics," call for papers ends today at midnight. If you have an interesting idea, submit here: http://wrld.bg/roT1x
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