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Pakistan’s water shortage is a myth

7 June 2018

Daanish Mustafa, Thursday June 7th, 2018 The country’s water scarcity is socially constructed, and large farmers engaged in agricultural exports are the culprits and the beneficiaries of it. I recently came across some real news about Pakistan which merits sharing, and commenting. According to a [read more]

The Breaking Storm – the real threats to the Global Economy

31 May 2018

Note: This piece is a high level comment on current threats to the global economy, there is more detail in other posts on this Site There are two long-term problems that will increasingly drive events; one is the loss of German control of the European Union/EuroZone, and the second is the impending [read more]

How the world’s water changed between 2002 and 2016

30 May 2018

Ellen Gray, Wednesday May 30th, 2018 Using data from twin satellites over a 14-year period, from 2002 to 2016, NASA comes up with stunning images of how wet areas are getting wetter, and groundwater is disappearing in some areas, and why NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using GRACE [read more]

A portrait of a Karachi slum during a heatwave

28 May 2018

Amar Guriro, Monday May 28th, 2018 As Pakistani NGOs and the government dispute how many have died in Karachi’s latest heatwave, the people who live in the city’s slums – those most vulnerable – are still ignored. Samooda, who goes by one name, is a Bengali speaking widow and mother of [read more]

Yellow River Diaries

2 April 2018

One of China’s leading environmentalists has spent the past decade documenting the impact of development along the country’s ‘Mother river’ Wang Yongchen, Monday April 2nd, 2018 Editor’s note: The Yellow River stretches almost 5,500 kilometres, running from west to east through [read more]

Business models and dollar funding of global banks

26 March 2018

Notes on BIS Working Paper No 708, March 2018 Iñaki Aldasoro, Torsten Ehlers and Egemen Eren Abstract from BIS: Since the eurozone crisis, there has been a stark divergence between European banks and Japanese banks in their dollar uses and sources. We show that these shifts have implications for [read more]

China falls out of love with nuclear

26 March 2018

Slowing demand for electricity and competition from renewables have halted new reactor approvals, writes Feng Hao As countries around the world abandoned nuclear power, China had bucked the trend, embracing nuclear power as a reliable and cheap energy source that would help reduce air pollution [read more]

The GDP of Bridges to Nowhere

26 March 2018

MICHAEL PETTIS In most economies, GDP growth is a measure of economic output generated by the performance of the underlying economy. In China, however, Beijing sets annual GDP growth targets it expects to meet. Turning GDP growth into an economic input, rather than an output, radically changes its [read more]

Nudging the city and residents of Cape Town to save water

9 March 2018

As Cape Town in South Africa heads towards running dry, Leila Harris, Jiaying Zhao, and Martine Visser list out the steps the city could take to nudge its citizens to better use their water Leila Harris, Jiaying Zhao, and Martine Visser, March 9, 2018 Cape Town could become the world’s first [read more]
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