Branko Milanović

This is actually quite a good article in @WSJ. Fairly balanced.

"It is a remarkable achievement that Nigeria exists as one country today." "On why I remain bullish on Nigeria" Very interesting article (h/t @scepticalranil) "

The Franco-German Proposal on the Serbia-Kosovo relations (as explained in this excellent piece by M Milanovic-no relation) is word-for-word copied from the 1972 W German-E German Basic Agreement. It could be repurposed for RUS/UKR too.

Nice piece by @portereduardo even if I think the data show over the past 30y a very strong (population-weighted) income convergence. Entirely driven by Asia.

An interesting article on the grit and sheer hard work (and luck) that it takes people from rural areas to succeed in Beijing.

Very nice essay.

Very good piece by @adam_tooze. We have polycrisis, geoeconomic fragmentation, friend-shoring, "just history", self-equilibrating crises, slowbalization....but in truth we just have words, and no understanding of reality.

How the Locomotive Became a Metaphor for Modernity A nice text by Anton Cebalo

Excellent blog on global inequality by @nishant_yonzan, Gerszon Mahler and @ChristophLakner [link] "Global inter-personal incomes started to diverge b/c developing countries generally were hit harder by the pandemic than high-income countries"

An excellent article.

excellent piece on religious censorship.

There are at least two important, broader, points that are made in this excellent essay by @Volod_Ishchenko.