Editor’s note: This column updates the authors’ earlier column, Michalopoulos and Papaioannou (2012). “We have been engaged in drawing lines upon maps where no white man’s feet have ever …
With the new Global Goals agreed this autumn (UN 2015), the issue of poverty is at the top of global agenda. In a new book, The Economics of Poverty: …
There’s an infamous quote attributed to Vladimir Lenin (and also to Joseph Stalin): “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” The idea …