Agricultural Economics—Without Apology
In a new article published in the August issue of the World Bank Research Observer, Justin Lin, who is currently serving as chief economist of the World Bank, lays out a new agenda for development research, which he calls the “New Structural Economics.” Here is the paper’s (long) abstract:
Because of social insurance and self-control. From a new working paper by Pascaline Dupas and Jonathan Robinson:
Here we go, it looks like we can now speak the dreaded f-word. Famine, that is:
“The UN is expected on Wednesday to declare that parts of southern Somalia are now in famine amid the worst drought to hit east Africa in 60 years.