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YouTube’s favourite clips: an interesting report on what are the de facto most popular clips and why Viacom (and others with similar interests) might have less leverage than they think they have
Category: entrepreneurship
10 out of 10 for Easterly’s “Africa’s Poverty Trap”
This is the best short econ article I’ve read in the last couple of days: “Africa’s Poverty Trap”, by William Easterly, published in the WSJ on March 23rd (yeah, I’m reading things with a time lag…).
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Greg Mankiw, the most popular Econ teacher in Harvard, having fun on April Fool’s Day. A classic one . No wonder he is so popular :-). In any case, part of the secret is: give some attention to your students!
“Ant scam” worth 3 billion yuan…and a death sentence
I don’t think anybody will start an ‘ant business’ in China any time soon. Not after this. Link via Tyler Cowen.
→ Read more Ernst & Young’s “Southeast Europe Attractiveness Survey 2007”
…places Romania first in the investors’ ranking. See here a summary of the SE investment “attractiveness survey” results, in English (or the same, in Romanian). I think a lot of attention should be devoted to the indicators where we lag behind (and this report should probably have emphasized those to start with, Romanians tend to read the first pages and skip the rest…).
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