Samuel Clark

Working on local governance, service delivery and community development. I like tennis, climbing, camping, learning from my daughters, and living in Kenya!

[Dan Honig (DanHonig.bsky) @rambletastic]

Mission Driven Bureaucrats is (finally) out a month from today! More on the book at https://t.co/R3QuVU77Ra, including preorder links (Amazon etc. ) - 20 GBP/30USD on Amazon, or 30% off with discount code below/link on site 👇👇👇

[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

Choices have consequences -- Kenya (and the IMF) decided not to seek a restructuring that would stretch out payments on Kenya's bonds and Chinese policy banks loans and instead rely only fiscal adjustment (with a bit of bridge funding by the WB) to restore confidence

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[Samuel Clark @samueltclark]

Wow, great thread on an amazing life

[Oliver Kim @oliverwkim]

Happy birthday to Albert Hirschman, who would be 109 today.

Hirschman—anti-fascist, resistance hero, later a development economist—may be the most interesting person to ever take up the profession.

🧵 and blog post on his remarkable life and work.

[Edward Aspinall @EdwardAspinall]

Read this truly excellent analysis of the Indonesian presidential election by @sdjaffrey and @evewarburton - “Explaining the Prabowo landslide”
https://t.co/Fzi4gqnZFv

[Samuel Clark @samueltclark]

Don’t Reorganize the (Whole) World Bank to Fight Climate Change | Center For Global Development | Ideas to Action https://t.co/WFBXtyVbG5

[Horn of Africa Initiative @hoainitiative]

Consultations on the HoAI Borderlands Roadmap are part of a living process that will be sustained over time, with the 18th Ministerial Roundtable in Addis Ababa on 3rd October expected to adopt it. @WorldBank @AfDB_Group @EU_Commission @MoF_Ethiopia @BMZ_Bund

[Samuel Clark @samueltclark]

Remarks by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on the WH’s international economic policy https://t.co/bIKAYKyMM7

[Samuel Clark @samueltclark]

@toddntucker @JakeSullivan46 @BrookingsInst A significant departure in objectives, means, and the coalition necessary to implement - will be interesting to see how much of this thinking is brought across to WBG by new president

[Samuel Clark @samueltclark]

9 great ideas - I particularly like Idea 5: “directed improvisation” and have applied it to some of my work, particularly the Indonesia stunting reduction program. https://t.co/JkcjTri2ov

[Samuel Clark @samueltclark]

Fascinating interview on American foreign policy towards Russia under the last few presidents https://t.co/ejqViM9ze6

[Michael Pettis @michaelxpettis]

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Adam's excellent piece on explicit and implicit fiscal transfers is interesting enough for students of Germany in the 1930s, but it is also relevant for those interested more generally in economics, and especially those following China.

@adam_tooze https://t.co/vlCKjcuSUm

[Michael Pettis @michaelxpettis]

I've long argued that the only sustainable way China can manage its economic rebalancing and resolve its bad debt is by forcing local governments to absorb the costs by transferring or liquidating assets. This year the process may be starting in earnest.

https://t.co/a3HxDeMCzD

[Samuel Clark @samueltclark]

@Zhengfawei80 Most sub-national governments, particularly those that are responsible for basic services such as education and health, almost always rely on significant fiscal transfers from the central government—does Beijing have the capacity to raise revenues to fund such fiscal transfers?

[Dan Slater @SlaterPolitics]

Now out with @PrincetonUPress!

“From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia,” written with @JosephWongUT.

What do we argue? And how do we try to offer new thinking on #development and #democracy in East and Southeast #Asia?

A 📘🧵! 1/21

[Samuel Clark @samueltclark]

@Fromagehomme It seems here in Kenya we’re relying on the media houses to do the data entry, which must be really slow. Do you know of an effort to crowd source the 34A data entry of what’s hand written on the forms?

[Samuel Clark @samueltclark]

@Fromagehomme Indonesia’s 2019 election used a similar strategy to post the equivalent form for each individual polling station, but in addition to the images they mobilized 2,000 volunteers to crowd-source the data entry. https://t.co/fhI2GwXbnR

[ACGlobalChina @ACGlobalChina]

🚨August 4, 11:00 am (ET)🚨

Could Xi Jinping replicate Mao’s successful strategy to maintain power? @ShirleyMHargis talks with @vshih2 about his book, Coalitions of the Weak: Elite politics in China from Mao’s Stratagem to the Rise of Xi.

Register here⬇️
https://t.co/2rzBUXvxqx

[Samuel Clark @samueltclark]

@melbournefc @WFLWorldRun Ignore - I just read the tweet more carefully 😊

[Samuel Clark @samueltclark]

@melbournefc @WFLWorldRun The app has a function to run as part of a virtual team - does MFC plan to create a team?

[Abdullahi Halakhe @QulshTM]

If you are looking for nuanced insights into Northern Kenya, the @theelephantinfo has curated some of the authoritative voices across generations addressing historical and contemporary issues over the past few months. 1/ @SwissEmbassyKE