Bodies fall but ideas endure: Ghassan Kanafani

Bergstrom (2022) finds that economic growth, as measured by the increase in national gross domestic product (GDP) per person, explains 90 per cent of the historical variation in poverty.

One of the central findings from the Lobbying and Policy Change project was that the s tatus quo dominated – it was much harder for advocates inside and outside of government to successfully create a policy change than it was to pr event such change . The hurdle of the status quo is especially high in the United States because of the many vet o poi... See more

Much of ‘the evidence’ is crap! You can safely ignore it! A garbage study is always more garbage than study. Even good studies can be turned into garbage by the garbage practices of everyone else. If I wanted to be extreme: no matter how well you design your study, and how carefully you document your data choices and how carefully you design your e... See more

Never bring a model to a political economy fight.

Though these categories overlap, Israeli violations of international humanitarian law and the law of armed conflict in the war may be broadly grouped as follows: starvation, torture, mass executions, and the indiscriminate use of bombs, drones, and missiles.

More than half a million Germans migrated to the United States in the two decades before the rise of the Third Reich, largely for economic reasons. It would be absurd to claim they were morally superior to those who stayed and participated in the Nazi regime. They were simply spared the moral test that so many of their compatriots, whether through ... See more

A further practical issue is that IDA seeks to stay engaged across multiple sectors in client countries over time. E ach country’s financing package typically maintains a minimum of programming resources across agriculture, education, healt h, infrastructure, social protection, and so forth , independent of any specific assessment regarding which m... See more

In the midst of all of that, the Arab world is moving on. The new game in town is Saudi-Israel normalization. The two-state solution is off the table. Palestinian freedom is off the table. Washington is distracted with other issues; it’s not a priority. So I think all of those are the context in which they’re saying, “Look, right now, Palestinians ... See more