Tag Archives: Joseph Stiglitz

Links for Thought 12

Posted on May 13, 2016 by

1) The Real Hamilton: What’s Not to Love? A Bloomberg article that talks about Alexander Hamilton, one of the very early US Treasury Secretaries, and how his ideas to grow the US economy then wouldn’t be accepted by the mainstream … Continue reading →

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The NSS 2015 & the SDSR 2015: The “Development” parts Part 2

Posted on February 8, 2016 by

Another also quite obvious development initiative proposed was to continue developing global or international development arena is brought up on page 48, paragraph 5.9 which states that the UK has and will continue to play a leading role in the … Continue reading →

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So you want to start another organisation to combat poverty? A possible case of too many cooks spoiling the broth

Posted on October 19, 2012 by

“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one” so wrote John Lennon is his extremely well known song Imagine. Many people individually or collectively imagine they can creating something, even though they know others have already done … Continue reading →

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Links for thought 10

Posted on January 13, 2012 by

After a long long while, here are a list of links for thought: Continue reading →

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Ten myths surrounding US aid/US aid giving

Posted on February 9, 2011 by

I’ve a feeling that most of the American public and parliamentarians, Republican or Democrat, hate the idea of its country giving foreign aid whilst their special relationship cousins across the Atlantic have been very much for global poverty alleviation Continue reading →

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IPE-ID Clash 2: States and International Organisations

Posted on January 13, 2011 by

The second clash in the fields of International Political Economy and International Development regarding states and International Organisations Continue reading →

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