@Brad_Setser I really like this path dependency reading. Captures the complex and quite ironic historical sequence.
@Brad_Setser I guess I wonder – and it is a PURELY hypothetical question – if ("IF") any Western player had a "policy" bank with ExIm's
@Brad_Setser Yeah this is where hawks and doves divide, even in the description of the situation let alone conceivable solutions. THANK you for these last
@Brad_Setser I realize that this is a political rather than technical or procedural fix at the level you are arguing, but cooperation with China is
RT @MonikaSchnitzer: In den letzten 12 Jahren hatten laut @IRENA die größten Kapazitätszuwächse bei erneuerbaren Energien: China: + 9…
African "pioneer fronts" should not be underestimated as a force in world economy. Apart from Cocoa (Chartbook 196) focus on gold. In 2009 demand in
RT @RBReich: The number of minors employed in violation of child labor laws increased by 283% since 2015. Remarkably, this year, legislat…
RT @DougSaunders: I spent a few weeks in the Mekong Delta with photographer Goran Tomasevic to document the climate migration paradox: Alth…
@Brad_Setser Struck by the fact that your response is rigorously case by case – Ghana, Zambia, Sri Lanka – and you spool bigger points out
@Brad_Setser THANK you brad for this amazing thread!
How a 2nd tier Janjaweed warlord from battlefields of Darfur, trumped his more highly placed local rivals & became a global player allied to Russia
RT @PGDynes: In only 1 century humans have managed to reduce the total plant biomass on the planet by 50% through deforestation and land us…
RT @CleanPowerDave: Gospel of John chapter 14: versus 1-6: "And God unleashed a torrent of clean power upon the world, but alas there was…
RT @PGDynes: There’s drought – and then there’s a super drought! 60% of the Spanish countryside is bone dry. Groundwater eventually runs ou…
RT @ncitayim: 🇸🇦🇮🇷 This is something. #Saudi Arabia's leadership is more positively perceived (and by some distance) than #Iran's in *all*…
From centralized oil regime to decentralized artisanal gold-mine-based political economy. A sketchmap of Sudan's political economy as a background to the recent violence there. tinyurl.com/ywt5ea8d
@whiteafrican Isn’t it simply fascinating!!!! Dramatic, moving and important, obs but also fascinating.
@toddntucker I wonder whether the conversion framing is helpful here. Let them remain deniers. Best of all Let’s not bring it up. Let’s just complicate
RT @its_mccarthy: This article at @CritSoc by @yige_dong is the first ethnography of Foxconn in Zhengzhou, the world's largest iPhone plant…
@postdiscipline There you go! And then I favor being tough with feedback and comments but lenient with grades so they aren’t disadvantaged after all the
RT @stanleystravels: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-20… Fabulous article (as always) by @adam_tooze on the little-known role that artisanal gold mini…
Khartoum's elite loved oil revenues they could rule at a distance in enclave production in South. But they knew it couldnt last. So they prepared
RT @toddntucker: Fascinating piece. Unlike other borrowers, – the guarantees of the EC aren't backed by a revenue stream, – there's a lo…
@postdiscipline Know what you mean. But If it is competition at all, isn’t it positive selection? Don’t you end up with the students you want
RT @Guay_JG: There is a biblical flood of clean energy waiting to be unleashed across the US Time to break the dam https://t.co/Vct1bhvvP3
RT @Bakhunin: Er, why is Sudanese scholarship on Sudan so damn overlooked? The list in this tweet from @matnashed is a good start: indeed,…
RT @Bakhunin: I’d especially underline work by Magdi El Gizouli @StillSUDAN on “market authoritarianism” and centre-periphery dynamics (not…
RT @BertholdSeliger: @nellinelke @adam_tooze heute in seinem Substack: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-20…
"This is our variety of electrification" I swear I did not contrive this. It was the AI wot did it. WEIRD world! https://t.co/jDGvWgxkf3
@joolsd Thank you! I am already collecting material for a follow up.
@scottpsolomon 🙂 All good! Believe me I am freaked out too.
Sudan on your mind? It should be. For some relief and (at times melancholy beauty) check out Noori & His Dorpa Band (live @Le Guess
Artisanal mining in Africa is often presented through dramatic images as the epitome of backwardness harnessed to global North modernity. But the mining itself is
@scottpsolomon Yeah but dont get angry at me. Believe me, I am ALARMED!
@VixDelhi But in the African light you dont need a filter.
@VixDelhi Yeah. That is what I was thinking of too.
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