Saturday, June 28, 2008

Links of Interest

Seven Questions: Paul Wolfowitz

The World's top 20 intellectuals (two economists make into the list--Mohammad Yunus and Amartya Sen)

From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World? (full book by Oxfam link here and interview with Head of Research at Oxfam GD, Duncan Green here )

Five steps to sustainable governance in Africa (interview with Paul Collier)

Does professor quality matter? (via Chris Blattman)

Gates' Misguided Capitalism (by Easterly...Check out this blog where heavyweights of economics ranging from Becker to Clark to Easterly to Reich to Posner blog)

Who demands reservation?

Indian inflation at record levels