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EmergingFrontierMarkets.comemerging and frontier markets:the unofficial field guideSite
Owner / Publisher: Sta.
Romana, Leonardo L.
Based in: Manila,
Philippines;
and Southeast Asia
Posted on Thu, 30 Nov
2023: Robinson and El Zaghloul: Can COP28 Help Put a Key Nature Agreement into Action?. Context.news, 29 Nov 23: We currently face two urgent crises – nature loss and climate change – and both pose catastrophic risks to humanity, write fmr pres of Ireland and Campaign for Nature global steering cmte member / dir of High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People
Argentina's President-elect Wants to Replace its Peso with the Dollar. Why?, Marketplace, 20 Nov 23: Argentina has a new pres-elect, Javier Milei, and he has a whole list of radical policies to fix that country's severe econ problems. In fact, for a time he campaigned carrying a chainsaw to symbolize the drastic cuts he planned to make to govt spending
Posted on Tue, 10 Oct
2023: Deaton: Is Economic Failure a Failure of Economics?, Project Syndicate, Jan '23 [via Author's site]: As Treas Secy, Summers worked to weaken restrictions on the intl flow of speculative funds, as well as on derivatives and other more exotic financial instruments. Many have since argued that those changes contributed to both the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis and the global financial crisis a decade later, writes 2015 Nobel Laureate
2023 Nobel Prize in Economics – Awarded to Claudia Goldin "for having advanced our understanding of women's labor market outcomes", 09 Oct 23: Women are vastly underrepresented in the global labor market and, when they work, they earn less than men. Goldin has trawled the archives and collected over 200 years of data from the US, allowing her to demonstrate how and why gender differences in earnings and employment rates have changed over time Posted on Fri, 29 Sep
2023: 25 Countries Halved Multidimensional Poverty within 15 Years – UN report, Oxford Univ, July '23: The latest report of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index by the UNDP and Oxford’s Poverty and Human Devt Initiative shows that some nations recorded remarkable poverty reductions. These include India, China, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Honduras, Peru, Serbia, Congo, Morocco, and Nigeria
Orlove: How to Adapt to Climate Change, and How Not To, Columbia Univ (blog), Aug '23: While efforts to adapt human infrastructure and practices might seem to be an unalloyed good, there is such a thing as maladaptation. Much as medications have side effects, some adaptations turn out to do more harm than good, writes Columbia U environ anthropologist
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