Development blog: Oops: Economists in confused search for the middle class in the developing world
Updated: 2012-05-31 17:42:02
By Nancy Birdsall - This is a joint post with Christian Meyer. With rapid growth in emerging market economies in the last decade, millions of people have entered the new global middle class. That has created new consumer markets in Latin America, Africa, and Asia – a good example: Dunkin’ Donuts going to India – and sparked considerable interest in [...]
By Todd Moss - David Gordon and Stephen Krasner, two respected former State Department Policy Planning Directors, have a timely oped in Politico today on Syria policy options. They claim, convincingly, that the current bimodal choice between the (dead?) Kofi Annan plan or (costly & risky) military strikes ignores further squeezing the Assad regime. Gordon and Krasner argue that [...]
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Focusing on the dental materials most commonly used, Dental Materials: Properties and Manipulation, 10th Edition covers the tasks that dental assistants and dental hygienists typically perform. It shows the most current materials, how to mix and apply them in a [...]
: : skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Thursday , May 24, 2012 USDA : FARM INCOME WILL TOP 91B THIS YEAR Bloomberg DailyHerald.com Bloomberg reports that net farm income for domestic growers will reach 91.7 billion this year , second only to last year's 98.1 billion . That is according to the U.S . Department of Agriculture . nbsp Farm income last year was 30 billion higher than the 10-year average and that jump in income is primarily responsible for the large increase in farmland values , the story . notes To read more of
By Liliana Rojas-Suarez - Last week I was one of a handful of speakers at the annual meeting of the Bretton Woods Committee, a non-partisan group that works to promote international economic cooperation and to foster strong, effective Bretton Woods institutions (i.e. the IMF and World Bank). Other speakers at the meeting, which was titled “From Vicious to Virtuous: [...]
By Arvind Subramanian - Congratulations to CGD non-resident fellow Devesh Kapur whose terrific book, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India (Princeton University Press) has just received the ENMISA Distinguished Book Award from the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the International Studies Association. This new book by Professor Kapur, who is also head [...]
By Victoria Fan - This is a joint post with Alexander Rosinski at the University of California, San Francisco. A few days ago the World Health Statistics 2012 Report released its annual compendium of statistics. No doubt, it was a lot of work to compile—to verify every number in every cell, for each country and indicator. The WHO should [...]
By Owen Barder - On Friday evening, the governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) selected a new president: British civil servant Sir Suma Chakrabarti. The decision is important because the EBRD has recently taken on a major global challenge: assisting the countries of the Arab Spring. It also matters because the selection process raised the [...]
By Nancy Birdsall - Jim Kim, the incoming president of the World Bank, has gotten a lot of free (as in unsolicited) advice. I’ve participated happily, indeed eagerly (e.g. here), on the grounds that—to use Robert Zoellick’s apt title in a recent Foreign Affairs article—the world still needs the World Bank, and a better World Bank is better for [...]
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By Charles Kenny - I’ve been blogging a little about technology adoption of late. It’s a subject close to my heart: my last book was pretty much all about how new technologies and the spread of ideas were behind much of the global progress we’ve seen in the quality of life over the last fifty years. But there are [...]
By Sarah Jane Staats - I’m delighted to be taking over the reins of CGD’s Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Initiative. Many of you know me as CGD’s director of policy outreach and my contributions to CGD’s MCA Monitor and Rethink program. As the incoming director of the Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Initiative—effective June 4th—I’ll be building on the strong foundation [...]
By John May - Nowadays, the international development community is abuzz about the strong economic performance of sub-Saharan Africa. This year alone, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates growth in the region at 5.4 percent, and only ‘developing Asia’ should do better. Often this kind of economic boon is accompanied by falling fertility rates that usher in a ‘demographic [...]
By Charles Kenny - There’s much excitement in the Twitterverse today that Africa has the same surface area as the moon. According to Wikipedia and NASA, Africa’s landmass is 11.7 million square miles, compared to the moon’s 14.7 million square mile surface area. But take out the seas on the moon and you probably do get to around the [...]
By Connie Veillette - I came to CGD nearly to two years ago to lead the Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance program, and now it’s time to move on to other pursuits. But not to worry, Rethink will be in good hands. I have been honored to work with such a fine group of people who are doing important research [...]
By Amanda Glassman - This is a joint post with Jacob Hughes. In a recent working paper, Jacob Hughes, Walter Gwenigale and I describe Liberia’s unique experience in pooling donor funds for health in a post-conflict setting, with good results. We also describe a new and complementary agreement between Liberia and USAID, called the Fixed Amount Reimbursement Agreement (FARA). [...]
By Sarah Jane Staats - The Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) board of directors has terminated Mali’s compact following the late-March military coup. The five-year, $460 million compact will end at least one month earlier than expected. Portions of the Bamako airport and Alatona irrigation projects won’t be finished. And barring a major turn of events, the investments won’t yield the [...]
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