Interesting articles and links:
- Running surveys in warzones
- Does money buy Hearts and Minds? Mostly research in the Philippines but also elsewhere.
- Understanding the Civil Law, an interesting primer for people without legal background (and some interest in history)
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Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Friday, 30 January 2015
Monday, 12 January 2015
Pornography
My ISP in Yemen has decided that VOX is pornography.
I wonder which criteria they have used to catalog a public policy website as pornography. They may be using the famous 'I know it when I see it' yardstick from US Supreme Court's Judge Stewart. What kind of 'pornography' does this website peddle? What can be so dangerous for Yemen citizens that merits the drastic measure of banning access? Public transportation articles? Health care policy? Political partisanship? Poverty reduction measures? All of them highly relevant to Yemen, so yes, open discussion of these topics can surely poison the peaceful policy discourse ongoing in Yemen.
On the other hand, one can easily access Dabiq,the magazine by the entity also known as Islamic State, or AQAP's Inspire, although for this one it may be an issue of pride... having been produced in Yemen, it is probably the most trending magazine the country has recently produced.
By the way, web proxies are also being blocked (under their own category).
On the other hand, one can easily access Dabiq,the magazine by the entity also known as Islamic State, or AQAP's Inspire, although for this one it may be an issue of pride... having been produced in Yemen, it is probably the most trending magazine the country has recently produced.
By the way, web proxies are also being blocked (under their own category).
Saturday, 15 November 2014
Interesting links
Recent interesting articles:
- Mathematically defining Hipsters?
- How can Scandinavian countries tax so much?
- Distance to the equator and economic development, explanation for the reversal of fortunes?
- Compensating civilians during war, individual victims under International Law?
- Mathematically defining Hipsters?
- How can Scandinavian countries tax so much?
- Distance to the equator and economic development, explanation for the reversal of fortunes?
- Compensating civilians during war, individual victims under International Law?
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Interesting links
Latest round of interesting articles:
- Separatism meets Charter Cities, in Sardinia via Switzerland
- Missionary printing presses in Africa and contemporary newspaper readership
- Privilege and higher interest rates in the Ottoman Empire
- Separatism meets Charter Cities, in Sardinia via Switzerland
- Missionary printing presses in Africa and contemporary newspaper readership
- Privilege and higher interest rates in the Ottoman Empire
Sunday, 26 October 2014
Interesting links
Latest round of interesting articles:
- Why are you armed? Gun culture in Yemen
- Sun Tzu, entrepreneurship and the Austrian School (economics) in "The Political Economy of 'The Art of War'"
- Genetic testing in Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Polynesian, Native American and European contacts.
- Why are you armed? Gun culture in Yemen
- Sun Tzu, entrepreneurship and the Austrian School (economics) in "The Political Economy of 'The Art of War'"
- Genetic testing in Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Polynesian, Native American and European contacts.
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Interesting links
Latest round of interesting articles:
- How to talk to terrorist or rather why we should.
- The evidence on travel bans for diseases like Ebola is clear: they don't work
-Taking inspiration from the Torah, "Megillath Esther and the Rule of Law: Disobedience and Obligation"
-A Development Agenda without Developing Countries? The Politics of Penurious Poverty Lines, by Lant Pritchett
- How to talk to terrorist or rather why we should.
- The evidence on travel bans for diseases like Ebola is clear: they don't work
-Taking inspiration from the Torah, "Megillath Esther and the Rule of Law: Disobedience and Obligation"
-A Development Agenda without Developing Countries? The Politics of Penurious Poverty Lines, by Lant Pritchett
Saturday, 18 October 2014
Interesting links
Interesting links:
- Spurious correlations correlation is not causation!
- Tiger moms and helicopter parents: The economics of parenting style
- Has increased body weight made driving safer? Apparently yes... in alcohol related accidents.
- Does sex affect religiosity? Changes in Religiosity After First Intercourse in the Transition to Adulthood
- Spurious correlations correlation is not causation!
- Tiger moms and helicopter parents: The economics of parenting style
- Has increased body weight made driving safer? Apparently yes... in alcohol related accidents.
- Does sex affect religiosity? Changes in Religiosity After First Intercourse in the Transition to Adulthood
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Interesting links
Some recent articles of note:
- Dutch pension plans by the New York Times, praising conservative discounting.
- Stiglitz and Guzman's Debeaking the Vultures, on the efforts to change the framework of sovereign debt restructuring (after the Argentina ruling)
- Revitalizar La Engaña (Cantabria-Burgos) con un teleferico para tirar del túnel (Spanish)
- Norway increases aid budget but reduces UN contributions.
- Why does Spain have the world's highest concentration of elevators?, The Atlantic explains.
- Dutch pension plans by the New York Times, praising conservative discounting.
- Stiglitz and Guzman's Debeaking the Vultures, on the efforts to change the framework of sovereign debt restructuring (after the Argentina ruling)
- Revitalizar La Engaña (Cantabria-Burgos) con un teleferico para tirar del túnel (Spanish)
- Norway increases aid budget but reduces UN contributions.
- Why does Spain have the world's highest concentration of elevators?, The Atlantic explains.
Sunday, 12 October 2014
Interesting links
Recent interesting articles:
- The last Ebola free district in Sierra Leone and how it managed to keep it that way (so far).
- ISIS airstrikes between imperialism and orientalism and how the US discourse has not changed much.
- The capitalist cure for terrorism, Hernando de Soto, the example of Peru and feedback from Tunisia.
- Not all grades are born equal. The great grade deflation experiment STEM vs Humanities.
- Does Houthi takeover of Yemen's Sanaa endanger world trade? Personally I think not, but still a good analysis.
- Charred harvest. The political economy of Somali charcoal?
- The last Ebola free district in Sierra Leone and how it managed to keep it that way (so far).
- ISIS airstrikes between imperialism and orientalism and how the US discourse has not changed much.
- The capitalist cure for terrorism, Hernando de Soto, the example of Peru and feedback from Tunisia.
- Not all grades are born equal. The great grade deflation experiment STEM vs Humanities.
- Does Houthi takeover of Yemen's Sanaa endanger world trade? Personally I think not, but still a good analysis.
- Charred harvest. The political economy of Somali charcoal?
And how one district in Sierra Leone contained Ebola. - See more at: http://marginalrevolution.com/#sthash.h3SnvnVf.dpuf
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