May 15, 2022
@AndrewM_Fischer @unpopulation Sure … but, as Paice says, you have to weight that graph for population size.
@AndrewM_Fischer @unpopulation Sure … but, as Paice says, you have to weight that graph for population size.
@AndrewM_Fischer @unpopulation A key point Paice makes is that If “Nigeria and a few others” e.g. DRC are exceptions then, due to their size, that is the whole ballgame. The big numbers for 2050 and 2100 are driven by those “outliers”.
@AndrewM_Fischer @unpopulation Do read the Paice book. As an admitted outsider I may not have placed the emphasis on the right points, but his book, read in light of your thread, is a paean to the work of @unpopulation Also, however, skeptical about extrapolating from Rwanda a case he addresses directly.
@Npton_Adviser Much to the fore in the @ForeignPolicy article I am riffing on.
RT @David_McNair: Here’s me talking about last week. Since then, India has banned wheat exports and US projections for grain exports have…
Is there a Scandinavian Canadian and Aus/NZ housing bust in the making? Hard to make the case for either UK or US, surprisingly. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/JfgGSgy4jo
For Nigeria to provide 1,000 kwhours per cap, allowing for pop growth, it would need to increase electricity generation 15 times by 2050. VP @ProfOsinbajo in @TheEconomist economist.com/by-invitation/… Pairs well with Chartbook #121 on African demography adamtooze.substack.com https://t.co/Giv16dx0Pd
Presence-less: Is India’s tech stack a dramatic example of welfare without the state? In the last 36 months, India's direct, real-time, digital welfare system has paid $200bn to about 950m people. economist.com/leaders/2022/0… https://t.co/qiyxFHlCZZ
AFRICA NEEDS MORE ENERGY. Total electricity use for 1bn pop of sub-Saharan African ex SA < Spain (47m). economist.com/by-invitation/… @ProfOsinbajo VP Nigeria in @TheEconomist pairs well with Chartbook #121 on African demography this weekend adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/Hmcdld4upO
RT @TheDevilArmada: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… @adam_tooze All eyes on Africa. @mahbubani_k spoke on identical lines in his interview with @S…
RT @AliaGvR: @NewStatesman @adam_tooze Phenomenal read, inferring more to come on a number of points raised. (I note from the @NewStatesm…
RT @MacdonaldUkah: As much as is possible to do (because he's very very prolific), pls read @adam_tooze's Chartbooks via Substack. https://…
Is America’s arsenal of democracy depleting? This from @TheEconomist economist.com/united-states/… Pairs well with Chartbook #120 on St Javelin. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/IWT7WQ44a4
Miami-Dade county’s gdp was c $172bn in 2019, roughly as big as the combined gdp of Ecuador and Uruguay. 1,200 MNC have their LatAm HQ in a 70% Hispanic city in which exiled and immigrant Cubans, Nicaraguans & Colombians have flourished. economist.com/the-americas/2… https://t.co/1CzfTARBLU
@jraimo @EditionsduSeuil @ekleinberg Very interesting. I didn’t know Bouton’s work. Looks extremely pertinent.
How market failures are holding Africa back – more interesting than you would expect from the title! economist.com/middle-east-an… Pairs well with Chartbook #121 on African demography adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/SMNY5frP3x
@rcolvile Put it this way. If it turns out NOT to be Africa’s century that implies a development failure on a huge scale with huge attendant “issues”. One way or another it is dispositive.
RT @rcolvile: This is really interesting from @adam_tooze. Should we start thinking of this as the African century? adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12…
Across the Arab world, girls are less likely than boys to be at school. But in the classroom girls vastly outperform their male peers—to a degree unmatched anywhere else in the world economist.com/middle-east-an… https://t.co/GvxnZhL0sf
RT @Scorhill: Essential read by @adam_tooze on Germany, Ukraine and Habermas. What is it to be a ‘post-heroic’ nation state witnessing a na…
RT @NewStatesman: The 92-year-old philosopher, Jürgen Habermas, has warned Germans not to allow anger at Russia and admiration for Ukraine…
The Demographic and Health Surveys are one of the mind-blowing sources I discovered reading Edward Paice’s great book about African demographics. dhsprogram.com See Chartbook Newsletter #121 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/ET8Ty2hEex
@DavidMe31615095 @stalfel Earlier in the piece he says that one cannot aim realistically to defeat a nuclear power. But he does not emphasize that point in conclusion. I think that is telling.
1/3 of the world’s population is still not vaccinated against COVID. @OurWorldInData ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinat… https://t.co/Xk2nDQVINO
RT @abdota: Excellent post, as usual Effects of which we are already living through and topic that will increasingly engage minds of weste…
RT @teixeirajpd: Que maravilha de texto do @adam_tooze. Chartbook #121: Youth Quake. Why African demography should matter to the world http…
Delhi heatwave continues. Temperatures touched a high of 47.2 degrees Celsius at Mungeshpur and 47 degrees Celsius at Najafgarh. livemint.com/news/india/del… https://t.co/FNzXVPK3jM
RT @JosephPolitano: Fun investing fact: A used Toyota Prius has outperformed the S&P 500 over the last year.
RT @guillaumemoyen: «The sheer scale of Africa’s demographic acceleration makes it a vastly significant megatrend…But it is all the more…
@EricLevitz Me too. Hang in their Eric. If you can get the antivirals they are excellent.
RT @RassBariaw: @adam_tooze @AaronBastani A lot more deserves to be studied and done…great first step….we want more! We want more! 🙂
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RT @AnthonyBarnett: I've been waiting for this, I now realise, on the world significance of Africa's population growth. Another superb over…
RT @AntBreach: "Huh. 'TSMC'. Seems like a company that might be worth keeping an eye on." https://t.co/tnOciefbjD
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