Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Jeffrey Sachs assorted

Lunch with the FT: Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey Sachs 4 sariin 11-ees ehlen BBC Radio 4 -uur 2007 onii Reith Lectures-iig unshih gej baigaa yum baina. MP3 huvilbar ni nevtruuleg tsatsagdsanaas hoish 7 honogiin daraa garna.

Lecture 1: Bursting at the Seams
The 21st century will be marked by severe natural resource limits, the rise of new economic powers and the threats of failed states. These are tectonic changes with the potential to unleash global-scale upheavals. Global cooperation of an unprecedented depth and scale will be needed but we are not yet prepared for such cooperation.

Lecture 2: Survival in the Anthropocene
The biggest challenges that we face - climate change, alleviation of hunger, water stress, energy - are translated in the shadow of ignorance into "us versus them" problems, with only the weakest links to underlying scientific principles and technological options.

Lecture 3: The Great Convergence
Power and America have seemed synonymous for the last fifty years. No longer. Power in the 21st Century is shifting to the East: to India and above all to China. Facing up to the end of centuries of North Atlantic dominance - first Europe then the U.S. -will pose huge challenges.

Lecture 4: Poverty in the Midst of Plenty
This lecture considers the challenges of extreme poverty and the extreme worry of the rest of the world which fears for its own prosperity. It spells out the limits of the free market to solve these problems and proposes a plan of action which presents choices to those listening.

Lecture 5: A New Politics for a New Age
The key political novelty of our age is mass political awareness and mobilization. Mass mobilization has brought the Age of Empire to an end, and accounts for the failures in Iraq. No society any longer tolerates being ruled by another. Social mobilization can be a dramatic force for positive change.

Sunday, April 8, 2007

Good News

"Хөгжлийн Эдийн Засаг" блогийг хамтдаа хөтлөе гэсэн хүсэлтийг маань уриалагхан хүлээж авсан Монголоо маань өөрийхөө эхний бичлэгээ ирүүлэв: "Халаасны чансаа буюу ядуу хvн ядуу чигээрээ дуусдаг шалтгаан".

Цаашдаа манай блогыг уншигч хүн бүхэн Монголоогийн бичлэгийг тэсэн ядан хүлээж байнаа гэж найдаж байна. Монголоод талархлаа.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2007 - Scaling Innovation in Foreign Aid

Video of the Davos (World Economic Forum) Aid Debate with Gates, Easterly, Sirleaf-Johnson and Wolfowitz.

Some articles via Bayesian Heresy

Reverse Foreign Aid

For the last 10 years, people in China have been sending me money. I also get money from countries in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa — really, from every poor country. I’m not the only one who’s so lucky. Everyone in a wealthy nation has become the beneficiary of the generous subsidies that poorer countries bestow upon rich ones. Here in the United States, this welfare program in reverse allows our government to spend wildly without runaway inflation, keeps many American businesses afloat and even provides medical care in parts of the country where doctors are scarce.


William Easterly: Africa's Poverty Trap (.pdf can be found here)

Absent-minded killers

Boom and Bust

Inequality Matters: Why globalization doesn’t lift all boats

Inside the Machine: Toward a new development economics


via Bayesian Heresy

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Vulture Funds

'Vulture funds' threat to developing world - Meirion Jones BBC Newsnight

Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Friedman



Stiglitz and Thomas L. Friedman on the global world and societal organisation