Sanchit Kumar of Center for Innovative Financial Design (CIFD), IFMR has an insightful post.
Archive for June 11th, 2010
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June 11, 2010- World Cup Football begins today. Mwangi S. Kimenyi of Brookings has a nice post on Africans passion for the game. Gulzar joins in as well. He points to this exciting Goldman Sachs publication
- Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay of IFMR visited West Bengal recently and learnt the importance of technology to provide financial services to poor
- Cowen points to a paper asking whether quality of professors matter? What you think as obvious, economists don’t. They try and find it empirically.
- There are some comments on web (see this for instance) that UK should learn fiscal consolidation lessons from Canada in 1990s. Krugman adds his views.
- Red this super post from Krugman on The Global Transmission of European Austerity
- Robert Reich asks why eco advisers are paid to advice presidents (HT: WSJ Blog)
- Nudge in the classroom part II
- Mankiw points the number one bestseller on Amazon is by an economist
- Brookings TIGER Index : Tracking Indexes for the Global Economic Recovery
- PFM Blog points to UK’s COINS system – covering millions of individual lines of public sector expenditure
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