International Development
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Very much agree with Adam Tooze. The efforts to date of the US and the EU to match China's belt and road initiative fall way short ... fundamentally because they simply have been...
Let's be clear. No! The UK is NOT sending "aid" to India. Yes, the UK is *investing* £££ in the Indian private sector via UK Govt's British International Investment co. for profit...
@ameermuazuu Raúl Prebisch famously argued that developing countries should replace imports with domestic production because of the potential gains in industrialization that would...
With Xi Jinping’s recent announcement of the “Global Civilization Initiative” (全球文明倡议), there are at least 5 🇨🇳 initiatives aimed towards shaping the international order. Wh...
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India is massively free of poverty! The United Nations just reported that India has lifted 415 million people out of poverty in just 15 years. The best part? Poverty is down from...
1/7 #GPEKIX is helping to strengthen Global South education systems by building and exchanging knowledge and innovation. The annual report is full of stories of policy impact and c...
There's a strain of Western liberalism, common to "international development," that fetishizes "institutions" and views knowledge transfer as a one-way North-South street. I like...
Excited to see @LowyInstitute project that I developed with @AlexandreDayant and @Teesta_P moving ahead. As they write, there's a real need for more transparency on international a...
Remarkable that despite decades of Foreign Aid money put into education systems, in many countries most 10-year-olds are illiterate. World Bank measures of illiteracy (euphemistic...
@Cipotato @RTB_CGIAR @irri Cooperation 88 was selected in Yunnan from a hybrid cross between an India variety x bulk pollen of CIP late blight resistant clones unadapted to the Phi...
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