Aaditya Dubey
@pseudoaaditya
Cities, Societies, History and Institutions. MS, Analytical Economics @uniheidelberg, RAing @DaiResearch, RT != E
Below is the correct interpretation. Agricultural employment almost certainly keeps the poverty rate in Indonesia lower (unlike e.g., India). Philippines not better off just lower agric. share of employment. You can have the 'wrong' structural transformation out of agriculture!!
It is consistent with factor endowment – it makes sense to utilize labor in one of the most populous countries in the world. I doubt farmers' kids pursuing liberal education will be the path out of poverty.
Awesome new meta‑analysis of 67 studies on cadre promotion in China -economic growth dominant driver of cadre promotion -environment matters but weakly -social stability & innovation null -public service spending even hinders advancement
One of the common questions in development econ is why so many countries had positive growth trend breaks after WWII. This papers claims it was due to deliberate US tech transfer, with individual firms seeing 25-50% productivity improvements and speeding tech adoption by years.
Hundreds of domestic workers and sanitation staff—many of them Bengali-speaking migrants—have fled the city in recent days, gripped by fear amid a police verification and detention drive. The fallout is swift— Gurugram sinks in garbage. hindustantimes.com/cities/gurugra…
James C. Scott wants you to believe these are all basically the same people btw
Ethnic breakdown of the Greater Mekong.
as i have been saying, the pivot from "generative" to "agentic" AI is just about making chatbots the primary interface through which people use the internet. the tech doesn't have to get better for that to work - the old interfaces just have to get worse, and they already are
It’s over
this is incredibly painful to read. Please help Ahmed and his family to feed their infant!
My sister decided to sell the final piece of gold she owned from her marriage to buy formula for her 4 month old baby. The cost of a can of formula exceeds $150. Perhaps the value of the remaining piece of gold isn’t enough to cover the cost of the formula, this is unbearable.…
One reason why so many people despair is because we’ve removed beauty from public life. We could have beautiful stations, beautiful trains. We could make this world so lovely.
I hate how old train stations were cathedrals to prosperity and airports now are just the dingy bus stations of the sky
As development experts we have pushed nonexperts away, saying it was too complicated for regular people to understand. That is not good for building support. Radically simplifying would help us communicate better and make for more effective aid.
@rglenner.bsky.social advocates for radically simplifying how we do aid (and how we communicate it). youtube.com/live/uvyFva08x… (starts at 10m30s) #ABCDE2025
Poor access to finance and schooling inputs leads private schools to shut down. Access to these inputs reduces costly closures, while generating viable returns for investors, from Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, @aikhwaja, and Selcuk Ozyurt nber.org/papers/w34042
We have updates concerning this thread. The original article was retracted by the publisher, the author released a new response, the replicators briefly responded, and the author responded to response. 🧵
A re-analysis of Ciacci's (2024) "Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: Evidence from Sweden" Journal of Population Economics reveals major issues. A year ago, reproducers Adema, Folke, and Rickne found coding errors driving the paper's key results. Let's unpack ⬇️
Measuring international power stemming from trade and investigating the geopolitical consequences and strategic causes of such power, from @ErnestLiuEcon and @david_yang nber.org/papers/w34006
If the Europeans took the IMF's assessment of the euro area's combined balance of payments (and its assessment of the valuation of euro) at all seriously, they would be demanding that the IMF strip Ireland out of its assessment ... 4/
🎙️ In a candid interview with @dwnews, I explore how political influence can shield perpetrators of sexual assault in India—and what that means for justice reform. Watch now 👇 youtu.be/bSj7BVRplIg?si… @NUCSSH @NU_PolicySchool @NUGlobalNews @NUEcon @ndtvindia @BBCWorld
The ending of Cruel Intentions set to “Bittersweet Symphony” is one of the most unforgettable villain downfalls in film.
What movie had an ending so good you thought about it forever?
I remain unpersuaded that ideas are harder to find, because we should not expect spending on research to have constant marginal returns. As semiconductor R&D grows, firms are hiring worse and worse researchers to fill marginal slots. As chips are less on the cutting edge, top…
Everywhere we look, researchers appear to be growing less productive. We throw more and more people tasks, just to stay where we are. The implications are enormous. As our population caps out, we are likely to stagnate, and die. 1/
1. Nobody’s ever claimed this. 2. African comparative linguistics is a nightmare while Indo-European is tutorial-level tier (you can’t fail to notice Sanskrit Greek and Latin are related, and the rest follow naturally if you apply the rigorous deductive method of “having eyes”).
This isn’t to say sanskrit and Western European languages don’t have a common ancestor (they do) but their relations are overstudied relative to any other group - it makes no sense Africa has only 4 language groups for example
im a simple man, i see any strokes mtv live performance from the room on fire rollout, i instantly hit the retweet button
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