

Ryan
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@ryanbedwards
assoc prof of economics + dep director @devpolicy. @dartmouthecon @stanford @pmc_gov_au before that. very personal account. 🧑🧒🧒+🌻+🦋



I know this isn’t funny but it made me laugh…











Check out the virtual issue curated by former editor @giov_peri featuring papers - all with free access - on Labor, Trade, Development and Economic Geography Teaching material available! @EEANews @OUPAcademic academic.oup.com/jeea/pages/vir…



🆕 The development economics I’d like to see I recently attended the Growth Summit in Morocco. It was the best conference I’ve ever attended. My main takeaway was that development economics is missing a whole ecosystem of organisations working on growth: olihanney.substack.com/p/the-developm…


I'm happy to announce this new paper — we compile evidence on the extraordinary harms caused by IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programmes in the global South since the 1980s. The empirical record is devastating: documented negative impacts on wages, poverty, inequality, maternal mortality, infant mortality, healthcare access, etc. SAPs inflicted misery on the periphery in order to curtail their consumption, scupper independent development, and make labour and resources more cheaply available for the core. gh.bmj.com/content/11/Sup…

BLUE COMIC SANS

Keir Starmer jetted off for a four-day luxury family Easter break at a £200-a-night four-star boutique hotel in Valencia, complete with rooftop bar and pool. While lounging in the sun and sipping café con leche in a public square, Trump was issuing ultimatums to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants and warning Tehran they’d be “living in Hell.” Starmer stayed put despite the escalating crisis, five years after he slammed Boris Johnson for holidaying as Kabul fell, declaring: “You cannot coordinate an international response from the beach.” Macron spent the weekend on emergency calls with Trump and Iran’s president. Starmer? Not so much. Priorities


For 16 years, I have been reporting on land-use fights over energy projects. But I’ve never seen anything like the raging backlash against data centers. Here’s an up-to-date list of the data center rejections/restrictions since Jan. 1, as well as key polling data, a map of the rejections, and a graphic showing how opposition has exploded. Link is below.
