Justin Sandefur
JustinSandefur
Lots of strawmanning in the past 24 hours that a vaccine IP waiver is a horrible *substitute* for spending gobs more money on global vaccine rollout.I haven't seen anyone (in
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Everything you know about cross-country convergence is (now) wrong.https://www.cgdev.org/blog/everything-you-know-about-cross-country-convergence-now-wrongIn which @dev_a_patel, @arvindsubraman, and I take issue with a new JEL review that s
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NEW for WB/IMF annual meetingsIs the World Bank’s COVID Response Big Enough, Fast Enough? We scraped >1/2 million transactions from the Bank's website to judge.Blog: https://www.cgdev.org/blog/new-data-show-world-banks-covid-respon
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WSJ's @JoshZumbrun has the story on political manipulation of the World Bank Doing Business data.The Saudi angle is still confusing...1/https://www.wsj.com/articles/world-bank-delays-report-on-national-competitiveness-rankings-amid-conc
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Same value-added models that imply good teachers raise kids’ test scores also imply they make kids taller. Hmm. https://twitter.com/sanderwagner/status/1198940790623539201 Important caveat:https://twitter.com/fgeliasw/status/1198968976266727425?s=21
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