Links I Liked

By 2022, the number of young people in middle/low-income countries who are obese will overtake the number who are underweight (with big impact on health budgets and wellbeing). Time for Oxfat?

George Soros gives $18bn to his charitable foundation

Magisterial Branko Milanovic summary of what we know from the latest data on global inequality. More positive than his famous elephant graph.

Great collection of posts from the LSE Impact blog on blogging in academia (why? how? top tips etc)

I’m excited about my impending How Change Happens Canada tour 4-10 Nov, including Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Waterloo and Ottawa. Details here (Montreal to follow)

Even Africa’s Poorest Countries Are Too Expensive To Be The World’s Next Manufacturing Hub

Me on ‘Learning and Unlearning in Complex Systems’ at DFID earlier this year (and here’s the post it generated). And I need to start by learning not to talk so fast (but the looking over the top of the glasses thing is going well…..)