Tom Felix Joehnk

Economist. Previously @TheEconomist correspondent in South and South-East Asia (Dhaka, Delhi & Bangkok; 2005-2020).

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Zahid Hussain and I teamed up and wrote a piece for the @nytimes ahead of Thursday’s vote in Bangladesh. https://t.co/102DUhLXSa

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@FurkanGozukara @PKinbangkok lol

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@heguisen @isaacstonefish Based in Taipei or Seoul 🤔

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@AlaliQasem @sikkha dramatic language

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@nicksortor lol

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In a fractured trading order, power lies in having options https://t.co/3ur8V6jztf via @NikkeiAsia

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@adam_tooze @lpolgreen What about Bangladesh? Imports 95% of its energy requirement.

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Jürgen Habermas Dies at 96; One of Postwar Germany’s Most Influential Thinkers https://t.co/eYRCCopo0H via @NYTimes

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Do you get whats coming? #SolarHockeyStickOfHope

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Incredible reporting by @shaunwalker7 here. https://t.co/uU29Tjbw75

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@ZulkarnainSaer Who is Sheikh Hasani lol

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@AJEnglish @francesharris0n Bangladesh Nationalist Party

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Essays, Interviews and Books to Understand the World
Guest Essay : Bangladesh Has Exposed Democracy’s Deeper Problem (The New York Times)
Read here: https://t.co/TY6wcwQXKP

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The British novelist James Buchan once noted, that “economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors”.

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@the_nazmul @ReesEdward @tasneem In my experience not the case in formal English-language writing on South Asian historical figures. If in doubt, see obits of Bose, Tagore, Gandhi, Ershad etc..

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What is development economics?

@oliverhanney asks development economists for their definitions of development economics. https://t.co/0i0YJH2dch

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@the_nazmul @ReesEdward @tasneem Agreed. Minor point: why refer to her by her first name?

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@MujMash @SaeedShah

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@MichaelKugelman India views BD as a triangle of security concerns: that illegal migrants are changing ethnic/religious character of Indian border areas; that BD is turning from secularism towards Islamic extremism; that BD may again become a haven for insurgents fighting Indian rule in the NE.

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Has #Bangladesh's golden age of economic expansion and social
transformation come to an end? I teamed up with Zahid Hussain to find out. https://t.co/NNhNFl3K8D