1. The end of the Irish miracle?
2. Are SWFs smaller than you think?
3. Local government isn’t always better
4. Do you vote differently if you have daughters?
5. New blog on water economics
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Oh, so SWF also stands for Sovereign Wealth Funds.
Who knew.
So does this mean that pro- and anti-abortion voters will take more notice of how many girls a Congressional candidate has?
hahah we all came here to make the same “SWF” jokes.
Regarding Ireland: it seems there should be a solution involving paying their manufacturing workers in some basket of currencies, not in EUR alone. (Or, equivalently, writing contracts linking wages to exchange rates). This would lower the cost volatility of Irish manufacturing and make it a more attractive investment.
Regarding decentralization. Isn’t it a bit like deregulation? People say they’re doing it, but they never fully commit to it.
“Some evidence challenged the notion that interjurisdictional competition disciplines subnational governments.”
Well, so much for that theory.
They are one of part of the link
all the things are men so so we can do nothing for these
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