I forgot to post this when I first received it. But having just submitted myself, I was reminded of this call for papers:
Published June 30, 2011
Category: Economics
Published June 30, 2011
When Is a Dollar Not Really a Dollar?
When it’s measured in purchasing power parity. From a post on Owen Barder’s blog:
“If you have traveled in a developing country, you may have noticed that some things seem really cheap. Perhaps that bus journey only cost you 10 cents, or you remember buying beer for 30 cents. It is easy to assume that the reason people can survive on a dollar a day is that a dollar goes further in developing countries.
Published June 30, 2011
Rising Food Prices: A Photo Essay
PBS’ NewsHour posted a link to a photo essay about how rising food prices have hit a small Indonesian town.
Looking at the last picture, I am reminded that it was Indo-Malays who left Indonesia around 1,000 CE, sailed around the Indian Ocean, and decided to colonize Madagascar. The meal that Indonesian family resembles many of the meals I have eaten in and around Ambatondrazaka in 2004, when conducting fieldwork for my dissertation.
(HT: World Food Programme, via Twitter.)