Links I Liked

Thomas Hobbes’s final exam paper questions, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1608, h/t Will Davies

The interwebs were buzzing with a brilliant new Ethiopia paper from Chris Blattman and Stefan Dercon: ‘Everything We Knew About Sweatshops Was Wrong‘

According to a World Bank survey of 10,000 influencers in over 40 countries, their top development priority is governance (↑ rapidly in recent years)

Why do some jobs (& their loss) matter politically more than others? Thought-provoking from Paul Krugman

This is England (sort of). Letter in the Telegraph, h/t Stig Abell

The US and UK are rapidly diverging on aid policy: Leaked documents shed some light on depressing White House plans; Owen Barder on Theresa May’s welcome decision to stand by 0.7 commitments (after top lobbying from Bill Gates and others). But the UK still indulges in too much magical thinking: As it spends more in fragile and conflict-affected states, DfID’s recorded losses to fraud of only 0.03% of its budget look increasingly unconvincing, say MPs

Satellite images trigger payouts for Kenyan farmers in the grip of drought. Humanitarian insurance rapidly becoming A Thing

70 years is long enough. So it’s happy birthday, Neoliberalism, and farewell. Kate Raworth on a roll with this new Doughnut Economics animation. She also smashed it on Radio 4’s prestigious Start the Week programme (her bit starts at 24m 45s)