Development Roast Giving international development a proper roasting
Research, policy making and general life should be as fun as it is serious, so at INESAD we have let our hair down for an entertaining and productive month:
MEDIA FRENZY:
Having recently implemented a new media and communications strategy, during October INESAD began to reap the rewards. Ioulia Fenton, Adam Nelson and Carolynn Look published two articles as part of the cover story of the October issue Global South Development Magazine and October Development Roast articles by several INESAD staff have been re-posted to almost a dozen different news, research and policy sites, including:
“Why Technology Deserves a Prominent Place in Post-MDGs Development,” By Ioulia Fenton, ZeitNews, October 27, 2012.
Irrationality and Heuristics: What can international development learn from behavioural economics? By Carolynn Look, Global Economics Intersect, October 22, 2012.
“Graffiti on the Great Wall – the Hidden Street Art Culture of Beijing”, By Carolynn Look, Global South Development Magazine, October 18, 2012.
“The Gamification of Life”, By Lykke Andersen, ZeitNews, October 18, 2012
“12 Initiatives Taking a Positive Steps Towards a Healthier, Fairer, and More Sustainable Food and Agricultural System,” By Ioulia Fenton and Adam Nelson, Global South Development Magazine, Oct 15, 2012
CONFERENCES AND VISITS:
INESAD’s 4th Economic Symposium: “Debating employment” took place at Hotel Presidente in La Paz on the 25th of October. Beatriz Muriel, Elizabeth Jimenez, Osvaldo Nina, Oscar Molina and Roberto Ballesteros made presentations about the achievements and obstacles to employment generation Bolivia.
Meanwhile, Joaquin Mayorga and Lykke Andersen visited Pando on October 16-17 to present the study and decision support tools developed to support Pando’s conservation program “COMSERBO”.
Lykke Andersen made a presentation on “Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility” at the Second International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility in Bolivia held at CAINCO, Santa Cruz, 18 October 2012.
Lykke Andersen presented and participated in the governmental workshop “Consideration of Climate Change in the National Planning Processes and Public Policy” on October 30-31 in La Paz organized by the National Program of Climate Change.
This month INESAD was visited by from Antonio Romero of the Think Tank Initiative, who came to see the impressive achievements of INESAD during the last year.
CONVERSATIONS STARTERS:
More so than previously, INESAD and Development Roast articles have been fueling debates across social media networks. Mieke Dale Harris’ What’s more important freedom of speech or economic development? has caused a heated discussion on LinkedIn, more than 2,000 people have liked Development Roast’s humourous 21 Reasons Why You Should Never Date an Economist on Facebook and Is intelligence based wage discrimination wrong? also by Mieke drew some interesting remarks on Development Roast itself.
Other articles in October included Ioulia Fenton’s Five Games and Apps to Change the World, Mieke Dale-Harris’ The Posture of Success, Dr. Lykke Andersen’s Games Economists Play and a guest roast from WhyDev on 9 Development Phrases We Hate and Suggestions for a New Lexicon.
CARTOON ECONOMICS:
The two volume book Cartoon Introduction to Economics was reviewed by this month’s book roaster Ioulia Fenton. To celebrate the release of the second of these, Macroeconomics, Development Roast teamed up with its author Professor of Economics and the world’s first stand up economist Yoram Bauman to bring its readers an exclusive sneak peak with the publication of these five cartoons:
We are all dead in the long run
Inflation is a lot like alcohol
Will the world end or will the free market save it?
Macroeconomic theories are still just that – Theories
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