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A World Without Aid?
A Look at USAID Historical Data
Feb 12
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Oliver Kim
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How Do Exchange Rates Work, Anyway?
Folk wisdom, dollar dominance, and hot money
Feb 4
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Oliver Kim
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How Do Exchange Rates Work, Anyway?
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January 2025
No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960
With A Personal Coda
Jan 21
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Oliver Kim
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December 2024
Why Did the Industrial Revolution Happen?
And Other Simple Questions
Dec 17, 2024
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Oliver Kim
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Why Did the Industrial Revolution Happen?
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The Rhetoric of Underdevelopment
A potted history of what we call poor countries
Dec 3, 2024
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Oliver Kim
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November 2024
How Much Should We Trust Developing Country GDP?
A Review of Morten Jerven's Poor Numbers, A Decade On
Nov 27, 2024
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How Much Should We Trust Developing Country GDP?
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June 2024
What is it like to work in an Ethiopian factory?
Hope and disappointment in the future(?) of manufacturing
Jun 12, 2024
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Oliver Kim
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Backwards Inducting on Chinese Democracy
A short sketch on the 35th anniversary of Tiananmen
Jun 4, 2024
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Oliver Kim
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May 2024
Are African Prices Too High?
A Balassa-Samuelson-Based Hot Take
May 14, 2024
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Oliver Kim
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April 2024
"You Can Even Kill Them": Albert Winsemius and the Rise of Singapore
Development and Authoritarianism in the World's Favorite City-State
Apr 23, 2024
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Oliver Kim
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"You Can Even Kill Them": Albert Winsemius and the Rise of Singapore
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The Real Development was the Friends We Made Along the Way
Albert Hirschman's Strategy of Economic Development
Apr 7, 2024
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Oliver Kim
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March 2024
The Beginning of the End for Africa's Last Colonial Currency?
The Developmental Implications of the CFA Franc
Mar 27, 2024
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Oliver Kim
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