Category Archives: Burkina Faso

The Greek economy has shrunk by more than a quarter since 2008, and continued to plunge at the beginning of the year without adjusting for seasonal effects, although at a slower velocity. While Greece’s official statisticians do not make such … Continue reading →

FRANKFURT, Germany — Let Greece go. It’s a possibility that’s being considered more and more publicly in Europe.There have been two and a half years of bailouts and broken promises by Greece to reform. The result: a fifth year of … Continue reading →

Established or not, economists are hot commodities. Last year, the average starting salary for new assistant economics professors was nearly $112,000 – the highest ever in inflation-adjusted terms and one of the highest across academic departments, according to the American … Continue reading →

Exports, a cornerstone of China’s torrid economic growth over the past three decades, grew only 4.9 percent last month — half as fast as economists had expected. And a slump in new orders over the past month at the Canton … Continue reading →

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A nice discussion of the issues… Last year we had a by Monkey Cage standards vigorous debate about Michael Ross’ American Political Science Review article “Oil, Islam, and Women.” Ross argued that poor progress towards gender equality in the Middle … Continue reading →

with(datasetname, tapply(analysisvariable , list(rowvariable , columnvariable ), mean)) and also after installing reshape and plyr packages: library(reshape) cast(bill1, female ~ competitive , value = ‘score2’, fun = mean)

Wikipedia has a nice discussion of Black Wednesday.

BBC News – Malawi devalues kwacha by 33%, leading to panic-buying The kwacha was devalued as part of moves by the new government to restore donor funding.The former government had rejected IMF calls to devalue the currency.Our reporter says that … Continue reading →

Is this still the main “danger” facing the renmimbi? Measures to suppress volatility may encourage speculators to all line up on one side of the market, at present the side anticipating further appreciation, subjecting the economy to worrisome capital inflows … Continue reading →

The first courses in our training were identical, and so of course I have to agree with Menzie (since that was it for me!) writing about what explains lackluster U.K. performance: I believe the data are not puzzling from an … Continue reading →

I have a special place for the village/town of Tanghin-Dassouri just outside of Ouaga because it is home to the lovely (but closed) Louis Lacaille library.  The town seems like it has a lot of political problems, in evidence in … Continue reading →

Africa received its largest ever share of global foreign direct investment FDI last year, an Ernst and Young survey has said.FDI projects grew by 27% in 2011, pushing Africa’s share of the world’s investment to almost a quarter.FDI inflows, now … Continue reading →

I hope the panelists take a critical perspective not just an inspirational one.  I have not read the book… is that wrong? (Kristof is regularly excoriated, often for good reason, by many, including Wronging Rights). Half the Sky:  Turning Oppression … Continue reading →

I shared this with my colleagues… the quote going around is that it is “easier to move a cemetery than to change a university curriculum”… LOL. There are a lot of topics that the analytics theme embraces (think about all … Continue reading →

My colleague Alex Field spoke a couple weeks ago at the Legatum Institute in London.  Here’s what they had to say about his work: His book, A Great Leap Forward, is a re-examination of the history of US economic growth … Continue reading →

My kids and I have been watching Heroes over the past two months.  It is so much better than the television I watched in Puerto Rico growing up (Kojak, Petrocelli, Mannix, Hawaii 5-0, Luis Vigoreaux Presenta, etc.).  We are enjoying … Continue reading →

                Brad DeLong posted this image today, perhaps copies from paper by Christina Romer, and since we were talking about NAIRU in class on Thursday….