Economic Development - Interesting Issues

Supply Chain Inefficiency and Record Onion Prices

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21591650-walmart-carrefour-and-tesco-have-been-knocking-indias-door-without-much-luck-route

Randomized Trials

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21591573-once-treated-scorn-randomised-control-trials-are-coming-age-random-harvest

Dani Rodrik on Africa’s Structural Challenges:

http://www.project-syndicate.org/print/dani-rodrik-shows-why-sub-saharan-africa-s-impressive-economic-performance-is-not-sustainable

According to Pranab Bardhan (a Leading Development Economist):

Global Experts Still Need Local Knowledge

UPDATE:

Pankaj Mishra On Lessons From West’s Experience

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-15/what-the-rest-really-should-learn-from-the-west.html