On Industrial Policy (In which I concur with Blattman 1001%)
I have made the case before here, here and here. For more here’s Blattman, commenting on Industrial policy: “You can’t pick winners” is the knee-jerk retort to the mention of anything that even rhymes...
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The Economist reports: “WHERE do the world’s poor live? The obvious answer: in poor countries. But in a recent series of articles Andy Sumner of Britain’s Institute of Development Studies showed that...
View ArticleIs the government of Rwanda massaging statistics on growth and poverty...
This is from the latest installment in the debate over whether Rwanda’s official statistics on economic growth and poverty reduction can be believed: All poverty lines yield similar trends when used...
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