That there’s absolutely no AU capability to prevent this from happening is a source of constant shame.

Even more shameful is the fact that too many African leaders & diplomats harbor no sense of urgency about the situation in Sudan.

I forgot to post the links on Friday! On protectionism and its collateral damage, Moore's law, AI bias and much, much more.

A good addition to your weekend reading: a thought-provoking interview in TheCitizenTz with one of the world’s foremost development economists Stefan Dercon of Oxford University.

Luka finished off Game 2 with a stone-cold kill shot. But he won it with every pass, drive, and read that came before.

Rob Mahoney: theringer.com/2024/5/25/2416…

Three teams could have had Luka and chose not to. One of them selected *Bagley*, which even at the time was insane.

People are bad at predicting the future, we know that. But the evidence is that even when their jobs depend on it, people are bad even at reading the present.

Happy tenth birthday to one of the great global public goods

New note w/ Tatiana Flores Hao Lyu Pierre Bachas Thiago Scot where we:

⬨Present a practical guide for tax authorities who want to use ICIJ 's leaked data on offshore ownership

⬨Demonstrate their use in the context of Honduras, Ecuador & Senegal

documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099…

Today Center for Global Development we welcomed Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP & education ministers from six African states to discuss the pressing topic of safety in school

I'm delighted that every country signed a declaration pledging to combat school violence

A huge step fwd to protect children & let them thrive

I see nobody told the Wolves about this.

Britain has more homeless people than other countries: John Burn-Murdoch on exceptional form today: clear about facts, clear about causes, clear about implications. Read it and weep, better still read it and remember it when you vote later this year. ft.com/content/24117a…

🚨New research! 🚨
We used the leaked + public data from Dubai to:

◦ Estimate the % of foreign-held real residential estate in 2020 and 2022
◦ Show the influx of Russian nationals into the city and estimate how much real estate they bought after the Ukraine invasion

🧵👇

“The CCP's Global Development Offensive.”

A silly title for a Congressional hearing, but sensible testimony from AidData’s Brad Parks:

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In my keynote at the Dallas Fed / SMU last month, I explored the root causes of the policy crisis at the Southwest Border

Video of my slides, audio of me—> youtube.com/watch?v=G8rPhG… (starts at 9:42, with gracious introduction by Pia Orrenius)