We are looking for students that studied at South African universities with a strong record in economics, mathematics and statistics, the curiosity to work on hard questions, and the patience to spend several years building real expertise. If that sounds like you – or a friend – you can read the details and apply at https://t.co/9pC9iO8qa5.
I'm a lifelong Hockney fan and finally had the chance to see his work in person in Paris a few years ago. His "Year in Normandie" at l'Orangerie blew me away. Here's my little brother taking it in. RIP to a true pioneer.
My favorite works will always be Hockney's colored pencil drawings.
How anyone can evoke this richness and vibrancy with such an economy of line is beyond me.
South Africa's murder rate is down 20% since 2024.
The end of load shedding seems to be best explanation for the drop.
It's striking that 50% of murders take place in just 12 policing precincts (out of nearly 1200).
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Apocalyptic bird nest.
A Russian glide bomb knocks down a tree in Donbas. From the shattered branches rolls out a tiny bird’s nest.
Made of drone fiber-optic cable.
Source: Oleg Malchenko
The flag is wrong.
The South African flag should never, ever be displayed upside down.
When it’s vertical, ‘V’ should always be on top, the red on the left, blue on the right.
South Africa slightly underrepresented in dev econ research based on the size of its poor population.
Yet SA is ineligible for certain funding because of its “upper middle income” status. The extent of its poverty is hidden by its extreme inequality.
What countries are overrepresented in dev research? Using new database of published dev papers, a scatterplot of papers published vs. log extremely poor population (<PPP $2.15 in 2021); left-truncated for < 100K ppl. Curve captures proportional representation (given log scale)
The ministers urging Starmer to go are feeding the hysteria. The next leader will be subject to instant leadership speculation and the next, and the next, whether Labour, Reform or Tory. Britain is becoming ungovernable. And the media fixation on this tittle tattle is not helping
BREAKING: Phala Phala sinks President Cyril Ramaphosa. A major win for the EFF as the Constitutional Court rules the Phala Phala Parliamentary vote unconstitutional. The process now moves back to the National Assembly for the assembly of an impeachment committee.
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I strongly agree that development economics should return to the big questions: why some countries industrialize, transform, and grow, while others do not. These are the questions that made the field central to economics and to policy in the first place. 1/6