De parte de Martin Chrisney:
Dear Friends,
Once again, I have compiled a yearend list to share with friends and acquaintances. However, unlike previous years´ Top Ten lists, in 2011 I am presenting a personal list of Ten Links to Think About.
The list was gathered in a unscientific manner during 2011 based on my random cyberwalk through the internet and is meant for those practitioners who, like me, are interested in the interaction between economics and development.
As always, I wish everyone a Happy Holiday and a great New Year.
Season’s Greetings
Martin Chrisney
TOP TEN LINKS (to think about)
- Social Impact: Our work in economic development is driven by a desire to have a measurable, beneficial impact on society. Naturally, the question always looms of how to measure that impact. The area of social investing through philanthropic foundations provides a testing ground for new methods to assess these results and many of the best practices have been compiled in the The Tools and Resources for Assessing Social Impact. In addition to a community of practice and insights from the Mckinsey & Co. on the subject, it houses a database of 150 tools, methods and best practices. These have been endorsed by the Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Impact Investing Collaborative, Ashoka, and many others.
- Limits of Empiricism. As an antidote to the rational exuberance about the use of impact evaluations in economics, I recommend these two short blogs by Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management on “The limits of the scientific method in economics and the world” I and II.
- Frontiers of Economics. Public policy has often been confounded by economic models that assume that ¨agents behave rationally¨. Robert Schiller´s blog on neuroeconomics takes a look at that claim through the work of Paul Glimcher’s The Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis. Indeed a new approach that identifies the parts of the brain that affect decision making and may drive the “animal spirits” that seem to bedevil our economies of late. This blog highlights some of the great ideas you can find on Project Syndicate.
- Development Economics made interesting. A must see from the BBC. If you can believe it, a visually exciting presentations of 120,000+ bits of data on economic development . Professor Roslings presents 200 years of history in 4 minutes.
- 10,000 Firms in LAC. The IDB and the World Bank and Compete Caribbean have collaborated to carryout Enterprise Surveys of more than 10,000 firms in Latin America and the Caribbean. The surveys offer a rich source of empirical data that should be mined by serious researchers who take inspiration from Prof. Roslings (see above) and others.
- Private Sector Development Topics: The Donors Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) has been in the vanguard of private sector development topics for some time. Its current offerings include topics on business environment, green growth, Seguir leyendo
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No he querido dejar pasar la ocasión de brindarle un modesto reconocimiento al poeta Mario Benedetti con motivo de su muerte física, siendo consciente de la inmortalidad de su magnífica obra. Ha sido un poeta que me ha acompañado a lo largo de la vida siendo una permanente inspiración. Me ha impactado siempre su condición de “poeta social”, fuertemente comprometido con la felicidad de las personas, generador de espacios para la convivencia desde una profunda solidaridad. Su obra es un compendio de amor, compromiso, fuerza transformadora, visión de futuro, siempre desde una profunda sencillez y cercanía.
Hace tiempo que Alonso me viene sugiriendo que escriba en este blog y colabore en nuestra tarea común de “evangelizar” sobre los clusters y movilizar fuerzas por aquí y por allá, en este caso en todo Latinoamérica ¡ahí es nada! Así que aprovecho que puedo escribir en mi lengua materna (tan acostumbrada al inglés en TCI) y que me siento como en casa, para compartir con vosotros una historia personal, de esas de familia.
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