🆕 How does organised crime take over a city – and can mayors act before it does?
@chrisblattman.bsky.social joins Kurtis Lockhart and I on Ideas in Development to discuss: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKF3...
Recommendations for Vegas with tweens? We are actually spending most days in Red Rock Canyon but evenings and some days could go to the strip or a day trip. (Unless you count get-out-the-vote door knocking in 2004, I’ve never been.
For day trips: Hoover Dam looks dull. Am I wrong? What’s better?
Recommendations for Vegas with tweens? We are actually spending most days in Red Rock Canyon but evenings and some days could go to the strip or a day trip. (Unless you count get-out-the-vote door knocking in 2004, I’ve never been.
For day trips: Hoover Dam looks dull. Am I wrong? What’s better?
I’m amazed: On the foreign assistance freeze, I’m astonished not to see major State Dept and USAID recipients challenge the disruption in court. An injunction? Where is World Vision, SAVE, Red Cross, etc on this? Or the Beltway bandits (Chemonics etc) Is there activity happening?
I’m no lawyer but surely they’re the only resources groups with legal standing for a suit? Please tell me I’m wrong.
New paper alert! 📣
@chrisblattman.bsky.social, Arthur Yu, and I reexamine the autocratic growth penalty—the finding that autocracies systematically underperform democracies in economic growth.
TL;DR, the penalty is concentrated in personalist, not institutionalized autocracies.
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Clear case of bsky confirming my low expectations. I at least received a little info and DMs from X.
In case you are interested, however…