Back into Poverty
Increase in food prices has pushed back into poverty at least 100 million people in 2008 and, according to the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition...
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Selva Amazónica, More Valuable Standing Than Felled
An article published on Science this week analyzes the development of the region across the Amazon deforestation frontier. In three words: boom and bust. It ...
On the Evolution of Thinking
What if we are becoming the very same Artificial Intelligence that we are trying to design? The doubt has has been raised by Nicholas Carr in an article publ...
If the Asian Growth Model is not Working Anymore
In 1981 poverty rate in China was 64% of the population, in 2004 the rate was 10%: it means that 500 million people stepped out of poverty (look here and her...
Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains
In this post Dani Rodrik explains why trade theories suggest that the U.S. should liberalize trade for agricultural products (especially cotton and sugar) an...