Carlos Oya

I think the thing that enrages me the most about Musk is that he presents himself as some sci-fi nerd hero doing everything possible to save humanity by going to new planets.

If your plan for saving humanity doesn’t include the people already on earth, you’re just a racist piece of shit.

Join @soasdevelopment.bsky.social for Jawied Nawabi on how state power and early battles with landed elites shape long-term development.
Chaired by @carlosoya.bsky.social

📅 27 Jan, 18:00 GMT
📍 SWLT & Zoom

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Aghion (et al) have a paper on China, they recognised long ago & before many that the Chinese model departs from the East Asia model in having a Darwinian struggle-to-the-death competition of firms behind a wall of protection. It pairs Schumpeterian growth theory w the economics of industrial policy

Hard as steel irony.

The coming collapse in immigration to the United Kingdom - UK in a changing Europe James Bowes analyses the fall in net migration to the UK as a result of government policies and explores some of the political and economic consequences.

James' detailed analysis is here:

ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...

Excellent piece by @tomcalver.bsky.social on the collapse in UK immigration, based in part on @jamesbowes01.bsky.social analysis for @ukandeu.bsky.social.

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

Tommy Robinson gets embarrassed in Dubai.

It's so funny, he gets banged to rights.

If you taxed every Billionaire in the UK so they only had £1bn you would get £1.1tn, an entire year’s worth of tax revenue.

It would affect only 173 People.

Tax the Rich, they’ve stolen all the money and dodged tax for decades.

It‘s time for payback.

Multiple pathways to personhood: The case of Bangladeshi women How have Bangladeshi women challenged gender norms amidst the “lived” Islam of their culture, in contrast to the "universal" approach of Western feminism?

By Naila Kabeer: How Bangladeshi women renegotiated patriarch

blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

#MorepostgraduatedegreesthanRoryStewart

Data extraction takes a lot of time and effort while conducting a systematic review. Silvi has an AI-powered feature that can help you fast-track your data extraction with zero hullications. Here's… | Silvi Data extraction takes a lot of time and effort while conducting a systematic review. Silvi has an AI-powered feature that can help you fast-track your data extraction with zero hullications. Here's how to use it: 1. Once you have screened titles and abstracts, you will move on to the full text phase. Click on the "See all tags" button in the top-right corner. This will open the Tags menus for you. Click on "New tag" and add a tag for the type of data you want to extract. In "Description," add a brief description of what you would like the AI to extract. The better your prompt, the better the result. Select a color for each tag to differentiate it from other. 2. Once you have created multiple tags, close the Tags menu and click on the black "Let AI extract" button at the bottom. Select all the tags and AI will extract data from the paper relevant to the selected tags. The extracted data will be shown in the column to the right of your screen. If you click on a tag in the righ

Data extraction takes a lot of time and effort while conducting a systematic review.

Silvi has an AI-powered feature that can help you fast-track your data extraction with zero hullications.

Here's how to use it:
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Child Poverty %

Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%

The UK 32.1%

How to Respond to Chinese Imports Dani Rodrik explains what governments should be doing to address the risks to national security, innovation, and jobs.

China’s export machine is a wake-up call for other nations. But it requires targeted and separate responses for national security, innovation, and jobs—objectives that are too often conflated. My latest. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/c...

New article in World Development Perspectives by @carlosoya.bsky.social, Fekadu Nigussie Deresse and Christian Samen Otchia explores the paradox of job switching in a wage cartel.

Read here: shorturl.at/woaYi
@soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social

China for Africa's Industrialization? Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - China for Africa's Industrialization?

Delighted to share my new open access book (Cambridge Element) on China's contributions to recent industrialization aspirations in Africa, including a particular labour focus. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Where are we at on ‘policy space’ and making trade and investment rules work for developing countries? - Activism Influence and Change I spent four days discussing ‘policy space’ for trade, industrial and investment policies last week. I haven’t really worked on it since the early 2000s, when I lived and breathed these topics in my a...

Where are we at on ‘policy space’ and making trade and investment rules work for developing countries? Summary of fascinating week's discussions with development leaders at @soas-dld.bsky.social
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Aid cuts and advocacy: could conflict prevention offer a new direction? - Activism Influence and Change In this post, Lauren Anderson, an advocacy and campaigns professional working in conflict and humanitarian response, reflects on the sector’s strategic impasse in the face of aid cuts — and makes the ...

Aid cuts and advocacy: could conflict prevention offer a new direction? Lauren Anderson reflects on the sector’s strategic impasse in the face of aid cuts — and makes the case for a more politically attuned repositioning of conflict prevention efforts.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/activism-inf...

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

This is going to be a game-changer. If this had been on my undergrad reading list 35 years ago I may have never dropped economics... Pre-ordered! @surbhikesar.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social @soasdevelopment.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @soaseconomics.bsky.social

We just discovered a new Nasty Party.

Immigration myths are everywhere The media is flooded with outright lies and misleading statistics. Countering the falsehoods is arduous work

Plenty of scope for debate on UK immigration policy. It is complicated -but it doesn't have to be toxic.

But we need to tackle the immigration lie machine.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

Meanwhile, in reality…

The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024.

This isn't due to luck or skill.

Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.

Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.

People are willing to forgo 15-30% of their wage to avoid hostile work environments.

Women report a stronger distaste for exclusive workplaces and environments with sexual harassment and value hybrid work twice as much in the presence of sexual harassment.

Collis & @clemvaneff.bsky.social

Horrible sense of déja vu reading this ascleiden.nl/content/ascl...?

Trump says the US will help in Asia quake. A former official says the system is now in 'shambles' The effects of Trump administration’s deep cuts in foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department will likely be tested in any response to the first ...

"Despite cuts, “there has been no impact on our ability to perform those duties,” [State Department Spokesperson] Bruce said

...Meanwhile, staffing cuts at USAID have “decimated” the teams that normally would be coordinating with allies to target rescue and response..."

apnews.com/article/trum...

You'd never imagine the Inquisition would return in XXI century USA.

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.