Politics. Development Economics. Political Economy. General Social Science.
https://kenopalo.com/2020/06/14/muchelemba-interviews-wantchekon/
This is from a CGD paper by Scott Morris, Brad Parks, and Alysha Gardner: The World Bank’s portfolio is more concessional than China’s portfolio in every region of the world, and sometimes dr...
This is from a new paper by Alicia Barriga and Nathan Fiala in World Development: Results from the tests showed very high levels of DNA similarity (above 98%) and good performance in general, but...
It’s has been illuminating watching African governments respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some lessons I have gleaned from their responses. For those interested, the IMF has a neat sum...
https://kenopalo.com/2020/04/13/some-policy-lessons-from-covid-19/
Politics. Development Economics. Political Economy. General Social Science.
https://kenopalo.com/2020/02/19/the-oldest-firms-in-african-states/
This is from the China-Africa Project: In purely economic terms, China matters a LOT to Africa but Africa is effectively meaningless to China. Last year, China did more than $4.14 trillion in to...
https://kenopalo.com/2020/01/19/africa-china-fact-of-the-month/
Alex Tabarrok over at MR has a fantastic summary of some of the works of this year’s three Nobel Prize winners in Economics. This paragraph on one of Michael Kremer’s papers stood out to me: ...
https://kenopalo.com/2019/10/15/people-are-brains-not-stomachs/
This is from an excellent JDE paper by Humphreys, de la Sierra and der Windt: We study a randomized Community Driven Reconstruction (CDR) intervention that provided two years ofexposure to democr...
This is from Marshall Burke and Apoorva Lal: Using these data across all African countries, we calculate that 43% of the overall variation in asset wealth is within countries, and nearly a quar...
https://kenopalo.com/2019/07/23/we-need-to-pay-more-attention-to-subnational-variation/
This is from ROAPE: This blogpost aims to explore the question of inflation in Rwanda, which has emerged as the last remaining issue required to resolve the disagreement about Rwanda’s poverty ...
https://kenopalo.com/2019/04/24/is-rwanda-faking-economic-data/