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Published March 30, 2011

Dear G-20, Please Do Not Tackle the Wrong Food Price Problem

A post on the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development’s (ICTSD) blog last week discussed a draft confidential report to the G-20 on food prices that was leaked:

“A confidential draft report from leading international agencies (…) aims to lay out ‘a blueprint for a systematic and internationally coordinated response’ to food price volatility in response to an explicit request from G-20 leaders at their November 2010 meeting in Seoul.”

The report, which can be found here, discusses price volatility as follows:

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Published March 29, 2011

My Thoughts on Development’s Next Decade

In a post over at Global Dashboard, New York University’s Center for International Cooperation‘s Alex Evans discussed the eight questions about development policy over the next decade that he answered in a new report for ActionAid.

Here are my answers. Like I often tell my students, I have no special insight when it comes to predicting the future, and just about anyone can come up with similar, if not better, predictions by reading The Economist and other solid sources of information for about a year.

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for anyone making important decisions on the basis of my answers below. This is all just in good fun.

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