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What is it like to work in an Ethiopian factory?
Hope and disappointment in the future(?) of manufacturing
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Oliver Kim
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Backwards Inducting on Chinese Democracy
A short sketch on the 35th anniversary of Tiananmen
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Oliver Kim
2

May 2024

Are African Prices Too High?
A Balassa-Samuelson-Based Hot Take
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Oliver Kim
14

April 2024

"You Can Even Kill Them": Albert Winsemius and the Rise of Singapore
Development and Authoritarianism in the World's Favorite City-State
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Oliver Kim
10
The Real Development was the Friends We Made Along the Way
Albert Hirschman's Strategy of Economic Development
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Oliver Kim
4

March 2024

The Beginning of the End for Africa's Last Colonial Currency?
The Developmental Implications of the CFA Franc
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Oliver Kim
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Anatomy of a Coup: Weak States and the Chain of Command
A Development Economist at the Movies
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Oliver Kim
2
Quiet Americans: Research Malpractice and the Vietnam War
Land reform, economists, and the 1967 Mitchell Report
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Oliver Kim
8

February 2024

Beyond GDP: One Table of Neoclassical Economics Solves the Europe vs. America Debate, For All Time, Forever and Ever, Amen
And some implications for development
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Oliver Kim
3
Leasing Like a State, or: Public Housing is Development Policy
Lessons from Hong Kong, Singapore, and Addis Ababa
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Oliver Kim
3
The S-Word
Review: Sheri Berman's The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century
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Oliver Kim
1
Why Germany Started the War—and Lost
Review: Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction
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Oliver Kim
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