Interesting numbers for tax wedges in EM from @OECDeconomy Big surprise for me @michaelxpettis @M_C_Klein @Brad_Setser is 33% for China/Shanghai! Mainly driven by employer SS
Tax wedge across @OECDeconomy varied in 2019 btw 7% in Chile and 52% in Belgium. oecd.org/tax/taxing-wag… https://t.co/jbD9tcyv3X
Stats appear to show Brazil has high share of public sector wages in GDP and big public sector wage premium very big premium for federal
France has huge gov share of GDP, moderate share of public sector wages in gdp -> negative public sector wage premium. Public sector wages below
"An Ignored Canary in an Unknown Coal Mine: The Caribbean’s $9bn Economic Engagement with China The Caribbean provides some of the earliest signs of the
Turkey’s influence in Libya is flanked by diplomatic forays in Niger -> challenging France in Sahel At same time Turkey strengthens links to Ethiopia v.
"emergence of China's public opinion service sector offers a glimpse of what techno-authoritarianism (an oft-cited but under-explained phrase) might actually look like” This by Jessica
Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will soon complete in Austria the world's largest steel plant capable of attaining net-zero carbon dioxide emissions. For Voestalpine … In
Though China has so far made the biggest investment in renewables, Japanese research (counterintuitively) appears to lead field in patenting decarbonization technologies! @NikkeiAsia asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Envi… https://t.co/zEz5fCdmRF
"Karikó was first exposed to these ideas as an undergraduate student in 1976, during a lecture at the University of Szeged in her native Hungary.
The “German engine” in Brussels: Germany’s EU Ambassador Michael Clauss — former German ambassador to Beijing Björn Seibert, chef de cabinet of von Der Leyen
The “German engine” in Brussels: Germany’s EU Ambassador Michael Clauss — former German ambassador to Beijing Björn Seibert, chef de cabinet of von Der Leyen
Leveling UP …. 300 bn pounds of UK GDP are generated by use of satellite. But not all parts of the UK are equally space
@Jmhaas Thank you @Jmhaas Happy new year to you!
@ThomasASpencer Thank you! Happy new year.
@EricLevitz Hi Eric happy new year. Let’s hope that thought does not shadow us in the months to come.
RT @Tweetermeyer: Eat more sablefish (black cod) in 2021. Fisheries are healthy and it's delicious and easy to cook. This is the classic mi…
@BuddyYakov hi yakov, history a dead discipline …? dead as a discipline? never a discipline? or just plain dead?
RT @LeChouNews: Sinkhole Opens Up In Kent Lorry Park, Truckers Drive Inside And Make Bid For Freedom https://t.co/Hcslthkz13
RT @blankaut: Amsterdam Central Station, 2018. Ph by Yang Cao. https://t.co/X0y87bUw5A
@UliVolz @ediecontooze @Tate Happy new year @UliVolz What a funny coincidence 🙂 And “study” is really the right word, I just realized.
RT @UliVolz: @adam_tooze @ediecontooze @Tate This is the David Roberts in my study ("Jaffa"). When living in Cairo my father became a big c…
"Grandma died, or a good mother as they say here on the border between the Romanian granic land and the Sixth Nosnerland" … Go to
"The number that truly reverberated in Berlin was not the 306 electoral votes for Biden but 74.2 m for Trump … Against this backdrop, the
David Roberts 1796–1864 Ronda, Spain 1834 Why am I looking at this beautiful image? Because it is on the Frame TV that @ediecontooze persuaded me
ECB’s Dec decision to boost its emergency debt-buying program by 37% to 1.85 trillion euros is enough to neutralize any pressure on European rates even
RT @animal0lovers: This is what happens when a bubble freezes ❄️ https://t.co/YWPrTTxqly
Uneven and combined development imprinted the corona crisis response: On one hand, unprecedented commonality of response across virtually all states around world i.e. versions of
A "dirty history" of neoliberalism in the UK might well start with Adam Curtis’s extraordinary The Mayfair Set: Who pays Wins. It traces genealogy of
Paris Club/bilateral official debt negotiating machinery is seriously French. Not only is the Club run out of French Treasury by top officials (literally the DG),
Across advanced economies, it is lower income people that have been hit worst financially by the corona crisis. ft.com/content/cd075d… https://t.co/2hTzjUhvBJ
Paris Club of bilateral official creditors is seriously French! Chair is traditionally a senior official of the French Treasury, currently the DG. Co-Chairman/Vice-Chairman are French
RT @suicidesoon0: @adam_tooze @Monde_diplo https://t.co/lZLl6xrXjm
Caged Man From Zeno at 4 am. William Kentridge 2001 moma.org/collection/wor… I keep trying to recycle the @Monde_diplo special issue on debt, but the illustrations
According to @WorldBank the corona crisis will throw back poverty reduction worldwide by c. 4-5 years. C. 100 m people face extreme poverty as a
After a few years of more restrained growth since 2016, China’s macro leverage i.e. the ratio of all debts (public and private) to GDP, soared
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