Economist. Previously @TheEconomist correspondent in South and South-East Asia (Dhaka, Delhi & Bangkok; 2005-2020).
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Zahid Hussain and I teamed up and wrote a piece for the @nytimes ahead of Thursday’s vote in Bangladesh. nytimes.com/2026/02/10/opini…
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Despite radical changes promised by the Interim Government, reforms to remake #Bangladesh are slow, almost stalled. Zahid Hussain & Tom Felix Joehnk discuss roadblocks & push-backs.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20…
@LSE_ID @IGC_Bangladesh @bdbnp78 @trahmanbnp @BDHCLondon @LSEGovernment
Senior editors on holiday?
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For some time Daron Acemoglu has been the colossus of economics. Give an economist a few drinks, however, and some of them will venture their true opinions about this giant, bit.ly/3TTvFbc
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Bangladesh's 2024 Uprising Changed the Players, Not the Rules
Zahid Hussain, Tom Felix Joehnk✍️
thewire.in/south-asia/bangla…
“Bangladesh has overthrown authoritarian rulers before. What it has yet to establish is an institutional order that prevents new rulers from becoming doppelgangers of their predecessors.” m.thewire.in/article/south-a…
In a fractured trading order, power lies in having options asia.nikkei.com/opinion/in-a… via @NikkeiAsia
Jürgen Habermas Dies at 96; One of Postwar Germany’s Most Influential Thinkers nytimes.com/2026/03/14/books… via @NYTimes
Incredible reporting by @shaunwalker7 here. theguardian.com/world/ng-int…
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Essays, Interviews and Books to Understand the World
Guest Essay : Bangladesh Has Exposed Democracy’s Deeper Problem (The New York Times)
Read here: kinzler.org/my-personal-dail…
The British novelist James Buchan once noted, that “economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors”.
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What is development economics?
@oliverhanney asks development economists for their definitions of development economics. voxdev.org/topic/what-develo…
Has #Bangladesh's golden age of economic expansion and social
transformation come to an end? I teamed up with Zahid Hussain to find out. asia.nikkei.com/opinion/can-…
“By their new measures, Jakarta (pictured), Indonesia’s capital, jumps to the top of the board with 42m people, about as many as Canada. Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, with 37m, has also pulled ahead of Tokyo, with 33m.” economist.com/asia/2025/12/1…
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"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publicati…
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From Madagascar to Nepal, a new wave of protests is unfolding across the world, driven by generational discontent against governments and anger among young people. Here's what to know about these Gen Z protests.
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BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Aghion and Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.”
#NobelPrize
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This chart illustrates why it's so hard to decide whether the economy is getting better or worse. Nominal wage income has decelerated, as nominal retail sales have picked up. One possible explanation: consumption is increasingly driven by stock market gains rather than income.
