Paddy Carter
@paddycarter
Head of development economics at British International Investment, formerly CGD, ODI, lapsed academic economist and macroeconomics hobbyist.
our petition is more representative of people's views than your, er, survey of people's views www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I get the impression I am reading something good (and I get the gist) but there are incomprehensible passages such as
This - a battery drive train that inserts between a lorry cab and its trailer and can electrify existing lorries - seems like a cool idea. Business model rests on building a network of swapping stations and having them used often enough, sadly, which is v hard to pull off
This is the reason Britain's road verges are so filthy? I don't believe it's impossible to safely pick litter without closing the road.
I wonder how bond market participants would rate the UK on quality of public investment
I realise governments in LICs have very little money to spend but can this be right? I know South Sudan would not be an easy place to spend foreign aid effectively, but the "beyond aid" narrative gets right up my nose.
Ok China let's see who can come up with the best solar panel pictures. We ought to do a Cerne giant
intriguing snippet about the history of Japanese management. I wonder just how many Japanese managers read it from here www.1914reader.com/p/always-goo...
I like to whinge about TVs in American bars but southern European insistence on blasting ghastly Europop in the most idyllic settings (see pic) is if anything worse. Oafs
John Mcintire on the Maga discovering they like being able to tell the World Bank and IMF what to do
right ... but even there, you've got a total cost of [whatever] so using it once per decade is a lot of money per [unit of power] delivered. Let's not forget deep geothermal!
I don't comment much on politics because I don't have a good grasp on how the great British voter will respond to things, but ffs I think at this point the government would benefit from hiring me to explain how this'll go down
Ambitious new paper: sorting the "determinants of development" by whether they can be ranked by importance and whether they can be altered through policy intervention. Most successful development episodes adapted to local traits rather than tried to change economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...
aye. I have already posted this elsewhere on this thread so you may have seen it - but 5% from "some other firm source" (such as gas) make a big difference
I do not know much about farming, but if I understand this correctly farmers have been ploughing land since forever and it now turns out not ploughing is better? www.economics.utoronto.ca/diegor/resea... (please educate me here, I am interested!)