are there pro-growth policies in wealthy countries that can lower interest rates in dollars, euros, yen etc and make credit cheaper in low-income countries? for instance if shelter inflation in the US is a disproportionate contributor to overall inflation and therefore prompts monetary policymakers to raise the price of credit to attenuate inflation, could policies like allowing more SROs, ADUs, TOD, townhomes lower interest rates for third world sovereign and non-sovereign borrowers (and their export customers)?
in Ecuador we have some dumb NIMBY rules about setbacks, parking requirements, staircase and elevators rules in relatively short buildings in important cities etc. do you think this kind of thing is an important impediment to growth in many parts of the developing world?
if Europe, the US, China, developed East Asia grow faster, ceteris paribus, does that help growth much in poor countries? is a poor country almost by definition a country that doesn’t export very much to those markets? are remittances, technology diffusion a lot more important than exports for most of the poorest countries?
how did smallpox eradication become an appealing idea to powerful people? should there be a sexy tabloid about pharma researchers and campaign leaders that glams them up to encourage more GAVI-like endeavours?
The Time Traveling Economist claims mass literacy is very important. I learned to read in large part thanks to newspapers. They appear cheaper to produce than books. I barely see them in Ecuador. Should states subsidize newspapers for students—perhaps with humor columns and short stories or serialized novels and health columns and transit maps/schedules, concert calendars etc?
Should states heavily subsidize meals in schools?
What should I read about whether Duterte’s anti-crime efforts succeeded or failed?
are there pro-growth policies in wealthy countries that can lower interest rates in dollars, euros, yen etc and make credit cheaper in low-income countries? for instance if shelter inflation in the US is a disproportionate contributor to overall inflation and therefore prompts monetary policymakers to raise the price of credit to attenuate inflation, could policies like allowing more SROs, ADUs, TOD, townhomes lower interest rates for third world sovereign and non-sovereign borrowers (and their export customers)?
in Ecuador we have some dumb NIMBY rules about setbacks, parking requirements, staircase and elevators rules in relatively short buildings in important cities etc. do you think this kind of thing is an important impediment to growth in many parts of the developing world?
if Europe, the US, China, developed East Asia grow faster, ceteris paribus, does that help growth much in poor countries? is a poor country almost by definition a country that doesn’t export very much to those markets? are remittances, technology diffusion a lot more important than exports for most of the poorest countries?
how did smallpox eradication become an appealing idea to powerful people? should there be a sexy tabloid about pharma researchers and campaign leaders that glams them up to encourage more GAVI-like endeavours?
The Time Traveling Economist claims mass literacy is very important. I learned to read in large part thanks to newspapers. They appear cheaper to produce than books. I barely see them in Ecuador. Should states subsidize newspapers for students—perhaps with humor columns and short stories or serialized novels and health columns and transit maps/schedules, concert calendars etc?
Should states heavily subsidize meals in schools?
What should I read about whether Duterte’s anti-crime efforts succeeded or failed?