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Yahoo! web retrospective
To celebrate their tenth anniversary, Yahoo! has created a web retrospective. Enjoy.
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Aid works: the eradication of Smallpox
Update: see a longer post on smallpox here. An estimated 300 million people died from smallpox…
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Aid works: introduction
Over dinner the other night, some friends – all intelligent, well-informed, thoughtful and caring people –…
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Making markets for vaccines
In my day job, I am working on how we can accelerate research and development of…
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Outvoting the US at the World Bank
It is traditional for the Managing Director of the IMF to be a European; and for…
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The case for US Aid
The prolific Brad DeLong, an economist here at Berkeley (where I am a visiting scholar), makes…
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Adam Smith Institute and FairTrade
The Adam Smith Institute is known for its robust support for free markets. Their blog is…
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Yesterday, more than 20,000 people perished of extreme poverty
Jeff Sachs, the economist who heads the United Nations’ Millennium Development Project says in "The End…
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Sedgemore on the Prevention of Terrorism
Brian Sedgemore, who is retiring from Parliament at the next election, will be sorely missed. His…
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The wrong sort of socialism
The UK Government has launched a new website to provide information about IT security. This suggests…
