Economics and International Affairs Blog
A politically independent blog by Vivekanand Jayakumar
Monday, September 30, 2019
Demographic Matters
Bulgaria: How to slow down the world’s fastest-shrinking country
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190913-how-to-slow-down-the-worlds-fastest-shrinking-country
US Millennials to the Rescue
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-opinion-millennials/
Negative Rates and Modern Finance
Negative Rates Are Rewriting the Rules of Modern Finance
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-30/how-negative-rates-broke-black-scholes-pillar-of-modern-finance
Why are interest rates negative in Europe?
https://www.dw.com/en/why-are-interest-rates-negative-in-europe/a-50567409
Foreign IT Workers in the US
Big Tech wins US talent war as Trump visa policy hurts Indian IT
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/Big-Tech-wins-US-talent-war-as-Trump-visa-policy-hurts-Indian-IT
Kenya Tries Demonetization
Smoking out the dirty money in Kenya
https://www.dw.com/en/smoking-out-the-dirty-money-in-kenya/a-50625031
Resource Curse – The Case of CAR
Gems, Warlords and Mercenaries: Russia’s Playbook in Central African Republic
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/world/russia-diamonds-africa-prigozhin.html
Saturday, September 28, 2019
The Promise of Quantum Computing
Quantum Computing
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/09/26/proof-emerges-that-a-quantum-computer-can-outperform-a-classical-one
What Matters More in Education: Technology or Teacher Quality?
Classroom Technology Doesn’t Make the Grade
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-25/classroom-computers-little-benefit-seen-in-test-scores-for-cost
Quality of Teachers Truly Matters:
The Education Crisis: Being in School Is Not the Same as Learning
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/immersive-story/2019/01/22/pass-or-fail-how-can-the-world-do-its-homework
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