Today’s Washington Post has a must-read article about how Mohammed Bouazizi ignited — literally — the wave of political unrest in the Arab World:
Published March 27, 2011
Marc F. Bellemare Posts
Published March 27, 2011
A New Method for Measuring Hunger
Robert Jensen and Nolan Miller, who are famous for publishing what is perhaps the first paper credibly establishing the existence of Giffen behavior a few years ago have devised a new means for measuring hunger in developing countries.
From The Economist‘s Economics Focus column last week:
Published March 26, 2011
Chris Blattman on Whether Poverty Leads to Violence
Does poverty lead to violence? That is the question Chris Blattman addressed a few weeks ago at a conference held at New York University. Chris writes: