https://tstigers.net/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi ... using Blosxom to retrace my steps en https://tstigers.net/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/11/12#blattman_blog <p> Chris Blattman, an assistant professor at Yale, is <a href="http://chrisblattman.blogspot.com/">blogging</a> about local-level solutions to poverty, political development, and conflict in the developing world, with a focus on Africa. Good reading, but I would of course need more China-related stuff in order to read this on a regular basis. </p> https://tstigers.net/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/11/12#biofuel_rodrik <p> Ricardo Hausmann, writing on <a href="http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog">Dani Rodrik's blog</a>, has published an <a href="http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2007/11/is-the-un-tryin.html">interesting take</a> on the discussion about biofuels, rising food prices, human rights etc. He's shattering some myths - especially the theory that making fuel from crops will cause higher prices so the poor can't feed themselves anymore. Hausmann, in contrast, argues that biofuels production may well be a "stepping stone" in the development of poor countries, especially in Africa. Highly recommended reading! </p>