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Stone the Mayor's House, That'll Help
While I'm doing my development studies course, issues I've wondered about before seem to become clearer. Confused and contradictory situtations that baffled me when travelling in Latin America start to slot into narratives of economic structure and class struggle; social indicators and policy... Read more...
Published 7 hours ago

Bringing It All Back Home
Despite, or perhaps because of this currently being my 'development studies diary', I should lay off the theoretical discussion and stats for a bit and bring it back to a bit more of a personal level.This occurred to me in the light of an entertaining and provoking visiting lecture from Jeph... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

The Facts Strike Back for Chavez
There's nothing like a bit of cut and thrust with facts and figures to shake up your prejudices.In a recent post I cited former economist to the Venezuelan national assembly, Francisco Rodriguez, as casting doubt on the achievements of the Hugo Chavez government, and even suggesting that his... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

The Costs of War
Recently there's been a bit of attention given to Joseph Stiglitz's estimate that the war on Iraq has so far cost $3 trillion. New Zealand blogger No Right Turn has a short post considering the opportunity cost of that amount.It's not necessarily a point to be made only in hindsight. I thought... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

Lonely Planet Plagiarism
The guys over at Road Junky (see my bio) will be chortling over this. A writer for Lonely Planet called Thomas Kohnstam has admitted making up or plagiarising large chunks of the twelve books he has worked on. Worse still, he didn't even visit Colombia -- the subject of one of his publications,... Read more...
Published 1 month ago

Hugo Chavez -- Not Helping the Poor that Much?
Following on from the previous post about inequality, here's an interesting article in Foreign Policy by Francisco Rodriguez, chief economist to the Venezuelan National assembly from 2000-04. Rodriguez deconstructs the belief, prevalent among not only Hugo Chavez supporters but also his... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Thoughts for Food
Writing in Dissent Magazine, Thomas Pogge takes on the complex issue of international economic growth and inequality. His main aim is to take issue with the idea that 'first we've got to grow the cake before we share it out' and the assumption that the best way to reduce poverty is through... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Modernisation, Shmodernisation
Excuse the potted summaries of my development studies lectures. They are part of my 'diary', which will contribute to a portion of my course work grade.A couple of weeks into the lectures, we got to Modernization Theory, the starting point for any discussion of development theories. This comes... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Joe Stiglitz and His Discontents
Friday evening we went to see Nobel prize winner, former Clinton adminstration and World Bank honcho and best selling author Jospeh Stiglitz 'chat' with NZ-domiciled economic journalist Rod Oram as part of Readers and Writers week at the Wellington International Festival.In the course of the hour... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Development and Dependence
One of the recommended books to consult in our Development Studies course is a text of sorts called The Companion to Development Studies, edited by Vandan Desai and Robert Potter,Heading straight for the bits on Latin America, I found confirmation that Eduardo Galeano's poetically fist-shaking... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

History Marching On?
One of the advantages of two-hour lectures is that you get potted summaries of frighteningly dense academic texts, which you later recall as actually having read.Tonight we were introduced to the work of two historians called M P Cowen and R W Shenton, who, in a work of apparently monumental... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Why Do I Care?
One of the assignments in the Master of Development Studies programme is to keep a 'journal' of our own 'ideas on development theories and issues' You can imagine that I hardly greeted this task with too much trepidation, given that my amateur musings on trade, energy, poverty reduction, labour... Read more...
Published 3 months ago