Oliver W. Kim
Person on 4 sites
Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.
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20 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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There is no known escape from poverty other than climbing the global value chain. (opens korrents.com)
“In our world, we know of no escape from poverty other than climbing the value chain.”
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Industrial policy that grows a poor country’s economy does not automatically reduce its poverty. (opens korrents.com)
“But, peering past the hype around Morowali reminds us that we should be careful before assuming that industrial policy must be pro-poor.”
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Who gains from a poor country’s growth is a question of political economy and geopolitics, never a purely technical one. (opens korrents.com)
“Poverty reduction is never a purely technocratic exercise, and questions about industrial policy can never be entirely divorced from those of political economy—including those of global geopolitics.”
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There is no known escape from poverty other than climbing the global value chain. (opens korrents.com)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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How Asia Works (opens rcmnd.app)
“Reading How Asia Works was a formative intellectual experience for me—a jolt out of the mathematical slumber of PhD coursework. I have a complex relationship with the text (more on this in a moment), but I still…”
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How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World's Last Developmental Frontier (opens rcmnd.app)
“What makes Studwell nonetheless compelling to read is his steadfast belief that poverty is a product of policy decisions.”
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The Strategy of Economic Development (opens rcmnd.app)
“This is one of those rare economics books that reconfigured my view of the world, made me reconsider views that I once considered silly, and adopt much of its language in my own thinking–so much so that I'm trying to…”
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How Asia Works (opens rcmnd.app)