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The flaws in the Anti-Corruption Agenda and how to change it

Posted on August 1, 2016 by ipeanddevelopment

The flaws in the Anti-Corruption Agenda and how to change it In May 2016, the UK hosted the Anti-Corruption Summit in London, bring leaders from developed and developing nations as well as practitioners and interest groups. World leaders and academic … Continue reading →

Posted in Economic Thought, Ha-Joon Chang, International Development, Posts | Tagged 2016 anti-corruption summit, anti-corruption, anti-corruption summit, Corruption, David Cameron, economics, institutional economics, institutional political economy, institutions, neoclassical, neoliberal, neoliberalism, new institutional economics, property rights, rent-seeking, Washington Consensus | Leave a comment

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

Posted on February 8, 2016 by ipeanddevelopment

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 →

Posted in David Cameron, DFID, International Development, International Trade, Least Developed Countries, MDGs, Official Development Assistance, Posts, Poverty Reduction, SDGs | Tagged bad Samaritan, Corruption, David Cameron, golden thread, Ha-Joon Chang, Human Rights, International Development, Joseph Stiglitz, Kicking Away the Ladder, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, post 2015, post-MDG goals, post-MDGs, post-Washington Consensus, Poverty Redution Strategy Papers, PRSPs, rule of law, SDSR, SDSR 2015, Simon Maxwell, sustainable development goals, UN High-level panel, Washington Consensus, World Bank | Leave a comment

Revisiting Bill Easterly’s critique of Ha-Joon Chang’s Bad Samaritans

Posted on July 5, 2011 by ipeanddevelopment

Back in Cambridge, I naturally had to read the works from my renown lecturer, Dr. Ha-Joon Chang. One of them was his book Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations & the threat to Global Prosperity (Random House Paperback version). … Continue reading →

Posted in Economic Thought, Ha-Joon Chang, International Development, International Trade, Official Development Assistance, Posts, Poverty Reduction, World Bank | Tagged Aid Watchers, Albert Winsemius, Anne Osborn Krueger, Arnold Harberger, Bad Samaritans, China, copyright violations, democracy, democratic, deregulation, Douglas Irwin, East Asia, East Asian Miracle, economic development, economic growth, economics, FDI, Foreign Direct Investment, free trade, free-market, Ha-Joon Chang, heterodox economics, Hong Kong, Indonesia, infant industry protection, International Development, Japan, Ju-Yung Chung, Karl Polanyi, Keynesianism, Kicking Away the Ladder, laissez-faire, Leonard Mlodinow, Malaysia, neoliberalism, New York Review of Books, ODA, Official Development Assistance, Punam Chuhan-Pole, regulation, Singapore, South Korea, state intervention, Structural Adjustment, Structural Adjustment Policies, Taiwan, tariffs, The Drunkard's Walk, Washington Consensus, William Easterly, World Bank | 7 Comments

0.7%? 0.07%? 7%? The lure and wonder over how much aid countries should give

Posted on February 27, 2011 by ipeanddevelopment

But you can give 0.7, or 0.07 or 7% of your income (as some super rich countries should give), but if you do so along with a fixed set of norms that has been detrimental to the recipient–and you–then is is useless to give the money in the first place… Continue reading →

Posted in Campaigning, DFID, Harriet Harman, IMF, International Development, MCA, MCC, Millennium Development Goals, ODI, Official Development Assistance, Posts, Poverty Reduction, USAID, World Bank | Tagged 0.7%/GNI, aid effectiveness, aid reform, bilateral aid, Center for Global Development, Department for International Development, DFID, Doha Declaration for Financing for Development, donors, Ed Miliband, foreign aid, Harriet Harman, Harrod-Domar Model, IMF, International Monetary Fund, International Organisations, Jan Tinbergen, MDGs, Michael Clemens, Millennium Challenge Account, Millennium Challenge Cooperation, Millennium Development Goals, Monterrey Consensus, neoliberalism, ODI, OECD, Official Development Assistance, Overseas Development Institute, Pearson Commission, Poverty, Poverty Reduction, Shadow Front Bench, Todd Moss, UK Labour Party, United Nations, United States, US, US aid policy, USAID, Washington Consensus, World Bank, World Council of Churches | 11 Comments

Africa after 50: An ODI-WB Event

Posted on February 20, 2011 by ipeanddevelopment

Last week, I went down to London to attend an ODI and World Bank conference titled Africa after 50: building on recent development progress.
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Posted in DFID, Ha-Joon Chang, International Development, International Political Economy, IPE, Millennium Development Goals, Overseas Development Institute, Posts, Poverty Reduction, World Bank | Tagged Africa, Alison Evans, Department for International Development, DFID, Ha-Joon Chang, International Development, International Political Economy, IPE, Justin Lin, Laurie Lee, Liam Clegg, liberalisation, Liesbet Steer, macroeconomic stability, Mark Lowcock, neoliberalism, ODI, Overseas Development Institute, Patrick Gihana-Mulenga, Paul Kagame, Punam Chuhan-Pole, Rwanda, trade liberalisation, Trade Protectionism, Washington Consensus, Will Day, World Bank | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: Washington Consensus

The flaws in the Anti-Corruption Agenda and how to change it

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

Revisiting Bill Easterly’s critique of Ha-Joon Chang’s Bad Samaritans

0.7%? 0.07%? 7%? The lure and wonder over how much aid countries should give

Africa after 50: An ODI-WB Event

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