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Mobile phones, tax and development
This week’s Economist reports an interesting study into the taxation of mobile phones. Not surprisingly, developing…
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Sir Ian Blair – it is the cover up that does you
On August 18th, I argued here that Sir Ian Blair should not be forced to resign…
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Pete’s pond
An amazing webcam set up by National Geographic, showing a watering hole in the Mashatu Game…
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From Brighton to Darfur
Two quotations from the last two days, worth reading together. Jack Straw’s Labour Party Conference Speech,…
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What’s left in economics?
Splendid contribution from Chris at Stumbling and Mumbling, who asks what a coherent set of left-wing…
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2005 as the year of development
2005 was to be the year of development. There have been some significant advances – particularly…
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Aid and growth: Erixon and selective data
Jim at Our Word is Our Weapon splendidly refutes the graph published by Fredrik Erixon that…
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South African Land Reform
Over at Samizdata, there has been an ignorant and racist discussion of South Africa’s land reform…
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What is Westminster Government for?
Being in favour of subsidiarity is like being against sin: easy to agree with the general…
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Causes of low growth in Africa
A fascinating new paper from Lorentzen, Peter L. and McMillan, John and Wacziarg, Romain T., published…
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