What Price Progress?

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“When the facts change, I change my mind – what do you do, sir?” John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)

Disclaimer

E-mail me at: whatpriceprogress at gmail.com

Blogs I follow:
Aid Watch (W.Easterly)
Brussels Blog (FT)
Cafe Hayek
Clive Crook
Dani Rodrik
Freakonomics
Gideon Rachman
Greg Mankiw
Martin Wolf
Partially Unexpected
Paul Krugman
Robert Peston
Stephanie Flanders
The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
Westminster Blog (FT)
Willem Buiter's Maverecon

The name for this blog comes from the song "What Price Perfection Part III" by the consistently awesome Sonic Anaphones

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

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Tue May 20

THE MEDIAN AGE AT DEATH FOR PEOPLE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA IN 1991 WAS…5*. FIVE YEARS OLD.

* Weighted average of 30 sub-Saharan African States, taken from World Bank (1993) World Development Report (Report accessible here: http://tinyurl.com/3oe2a3 - i’m quoting data from page 200 of this)

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