André Castro

PhD in Development Economics @ZEFbonn @unibonn, currently @giz_gmbh, former @The_IGC Tanzania, @ODIdev Uganda, from Brazil. Views are exclusively my own.

[André Castro @brcandre]

Check out my policy brief based on my PhD research in the most recent edition of #ZEFNews @ZEFbonn: https://t.co/A7SoPGwegO. I present #fieldwork data from #Tanzania showing that #contractfarming increases cashew nuts farmers output and food security compared to government [+]

[João Prates Romero @Joao_P_Romero]

Acabamos de lançar uma nova ferramenta no DataViva, que permite observar no espaço de atividades, atividades em diferentes degraus de competitividade. 👇

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

Tesla received billions in government loans, tax credits and subsidies, making Elon Musk the world's richest person. The public? No equity stake, no profit-sharing, no guarantee of affordable access.

My working paper with @rodrikdani has now been published in Industrial and Corporate Change. It explores the conditionalities—profit-sharing, reinvestment requirements, knowledge transfer—that can ensure industrial policy delivers public value, not just private wealth. [LINK IN NEXT POST]

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

In a new major report, the World Bank conceded that its decades-long war on industrial policy was wrong, saying its old advice “has not aged well — it has the practical value of a floppy disk today.”

But this is not an intellectual awakening.

The World Bank's doctrine shifted because the means through which Western nations can maintain their dominance shifted — not because economists suddenly discovered new evidence.

The world’s wealthiest nations are now pursuing industrial policy so openly that it can no longer be denied to the rest of the world.

When the geopolitical winds shift, so does the ideology of institutions where wealthy nations' interests are deeply entrenched.

[André Castro @brcandre]

@potatoslav yo yell the f*** back until they stop LOL

[André Castro @brcandre]

@giulio_mattioli @aminmail3 And a German colleague told me with a straight face that holding a dual nationality, in his view, is sort of a lack of loyalty or belonging. One has to decide. His comment was prompted by me statting the dual citizenship status of my daughter and my own (hopefully soon).

[André Castro @brcandre]

@dbelemlopes Não sou da área, mas minha impressão é que a indicação "técnica" seria indicar algum jurista ou juiz que já tenha uma carreira consolidada (fora da política partidária) e que seja reconhecido por seus pares antes do momento da indicação. Seja a pessoa mais conservadora ou liberal

[André Castro @brcandre]

@giulio_mattioli ..., darf ich durch?". He replies annoyed "Wohin!?". The tram was about half full or less. I said the toddler in the stroller was my daughter. He did not move. I had to push him aside and face his anger until he backed off. Typical Germans in the ÖPNV.

[André Castro @brcandre]

@giulio_mattioli Similar story. I was with my daughter in a stroller in a tram, left her parked at the designated area for that with my mom, went to the other side to buy a ticket for her, came back to the stroller and there was a dude holding himself right next to the stroller. "Entschuldigung

[André Castro @brcandre]

@giulio_mattioli @Anselmus_BIOS Yeah sure, my cholesterol and blood sugar levels need to be highly encrypted like nuclear launch code information or deployment position of nuclear submarines.

[André Castro @brcandre]

@potatoslav -old (35) a tad older than you!
-dad
-not much into fashion but rock n roll fan
-Brazilian living abroad in germany
-from São Paulo
-coffee and cake aficionado too lol
-annoying too lol
-I still think air conditioning is not needed in Germany lol

[Laura Carvalho @lauraabcarvalho]

Nada é mais sintomático dos efeitos nefastos da desigualdade extrema sobre a democracia do que a tentativa de rotular o conflito distributivo causado por uma proposta moderada de reforma tributária como uma “retomada do nós contra eles”

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

Immigrants increase innovation and economic growth [full stop]

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Working for peace requires acting justly. Every effort should be made to overcome global inequalities, which allow opulence and destitution to carve deep divides between continents, countries, and even within individual societies.

[André Castro @brcandre]

@potatoslav If you bake the cake yourself or if you buy from the bakery then it is not ultraprocessed, it is real food - of course with a lot of calories. The problem is lab-made food for convenience.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Modern academic: “my heavily qualified argument marginally advances the sub-discipline”

19th century academic: “my treatise, inspired by yesterday’s walk, revolutionizes philosophy, religion, and music. My critics are intellectually and sexually disordered”

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

"A car-dependent lifestyle is not freedom."

If your reaction to that statement is to explain all the reasons you need a car for all your trips, you're making my point.

Cars are a terrific invention. Having no other options to get around is a terrible condition.

[André Castro @brcandre]

@40PercentGerman I think there is not such a fine line between being an annoying entitled customer being on the receiving end of open hostility from customer service "professionals".

[Salem @rodrigosalem]

Enquanto não pedirem desculpas por isso…

[ZEF @ZEFbonn]

A new research article by Miriam E. Romero, Amy Faye, Bibiana Betancur-Corredor, Heike Baumüller & Joachim von Braun in @Food_Security undertakes a systematic review of empirical studies to assess the status of agroecology-related research in Africa
➡️ https://t.co/XDmT3HSxjY

[Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon]

Hard right parties have now surpassed the Conservatives and Social Democrats in European democracies in terms of average vote share.