Shanta Devarajan

Shanta Devarajan is a Professor of the Practice of Development at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

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@AEAjournals Congratulations, on the AER and the children!

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Michael Kremer appointed as World Bank Group Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. https://t.co/B1hXFzHOnl

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The difficult question Gen Z is asking is not just about Modi. It is more personal.

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The significance of the World Bank’s climate retreat by @vthomas14 https://t.co/EsJQIXIhl4

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Students protest in India over more than exam leaks https://t.co/csoFVO2vD3 Another case of high growth hiding deep governance failures? https://t.co/AWVsr0Ek4w

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Student Protests Over Corruption in India’s Rare Pathway to Intergenerational Mobility - interesting post by Eeshani Kandpal https://t.co/1INucICGh8

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Africa's ‘idle trillions’ are already hard at work by @BBSimons https://t.co/3wRCLIoQJv

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How to unlock investments in the hardest places by @pmbisca https://t.co/JFfpCrjCNs

[Pratap Bhanu Mehta @pbmehta]

"Evil without Agents": A pathology of contemporary political discourse

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People complain about FIFA rigging the games then come back to writing about why we should do industrial policy.

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From Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (ex-@IMFNews, @berkeleyecon ) The World’s Superpowers Are Scrambling for an Edge. It Makes All of Us Less Safe. https://t.co/0LjYaOnMze via @NYTOpinion

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New World Bank report on Sovereign Investor Relations (SIR) including nice discussion of the role of SIR in a debt restructuring, with a box giving example of Sri Lanka: "Ultimately, Sri Lanka’s high participation rates in Eurobond exchanges (96-98 percent) were primarily ..."

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@JustinSandefur Some of the early work on the Laffer curve in the U.S. was looking at labor supply effects, e.g. Don Fullerton’s "On the possibility of an inverse relationship between tax rates and government revenues": https://t.co/GnRCOQYehw

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@juliana_londono @BauNatalie @yotamshemtov Congratulations! Your father would have been very proud.

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@SFGaliani @CesarChavezP29 Congratulations, Sebastian. Well-deserved and a real boost to Tulane.

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@CelestinMonga @Kennedy_School Felicitations!

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When economic growth leads governments and international agencies to overlook (deny) governance problems, citizens distrust government more and revolt. The turmoil can undermine growth. #Africa #ArabSpring #SriLanka #Bangladesh https://t.co/nsI09lPm3Y

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A timely publication!

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Geopolitics, critical minerals, hydrocarbons. 🌍@OUPAcademic Open Access 👇 https://t.co/DQOZkyRVXW

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Navigating uncertainty: Lessons from ongoing social protection responses to high energy prices https://t.co/OeOcARviCT

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New blog with Eeshani Kandpal: The World Bank’s Self-Inflicted Crisis.

The World Bank is undertaking some extremely odd internal reforms:
▪️ A centralization of expertise that appears to replicate Jim Kim’s “One World Bank Group” model that was widely considered a failure ...