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Nein Uber in Berlin

10 September 201829 September 2018
Raul Zambrano
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Arriving in Berlin from Africa via Frankfurt proved to be a nightmare this time around. While the flight and connections were almost perfect, the same cannot be said about my luggage. I checked in one bag at the point of Read more

The Pervasiveness of Efficiency

14 February 201815 February 2018
Raul Zambrano
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Were 19th-century slaves working in the US Southern plantations more efficient than the free farmers of the Northern states? This was one of the critical questions two economists, one being a pioneer of cliometrics, studied in a book published in Read more

From MDGs to SDGs

15 September 201726 March 2019
Raul Zambrano
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An unexpected abundance of acronyms seems to be one of the traits of the UN. Having worked at the organization for (too) many years helped corroborate this fact. Yes, the UN is not the only entity with such a trait, Read more

Evolution of Global Internet Access – 1990 – 2015

2 July 201727 August 2017
Raul Zambrano
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No doubt Internet access has come a long way in the last 25 years. The latest estimates for 2016 show that 3.45 billion people have access to the Internet. That is 47% of the world’s population. The flip side of this Read more

Wealth and Income Inequality Data

15 March 201731 May 2017
Raul Zambrano
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A new version of the World Wealth and Income Inequality database has been available online since last January. The new website has a new slick look. It also offers an interactive tool to view and visualize data on a global Read more

Human Rights and Utopia

6 January 201521 March 2019
Raul Zambrano
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The use of the words “human rights” in the English language only started in the 1940s. It was just until the late 1970s that the concept as we know it today emerged in full force. Nevertheless, historians of human rights Read more

Basic Economics for All

9 February 201310 February 2018
Raul Zambrano
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In an attempt to critique mainstream economics,  Adler’s short book focuses on two key pillars of today’s dominant economic theory: 1. Pareto’s efficiency theorem; and 2. The theory of wages. The central question to bear in mind is the implicit Read more

Comments on FOSS and Public Administration in Costa Rica Report

16 October 2012
Raul Zambrano
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As part of the FOSS and SMMEs project we have funded in Costa Rica, we commissioned a report on the above subject which was implemented by the local counterpart, the National University of Costa Rica. The latest version of the Read more
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