@schl.bsky.social
Senior Researcher @oefse.at • Global Development Finance, Economic Transformation, Public Policy • Posts EN/DE, views my own.
Impact of flights on global warming severely underestimated by many carbon calculators & offset schemes that don’t properly account for taxiing, sub-optimal routing or non-CO2 climate effects which are larger component:
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
Research paper:
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
New call for papers: What is the future for global development?
We are pleased to announce that GDI is hosting a conference in April 2026, and we are now accepting abstracts for papers and posters.
Please see the full Call for Papers for more info as well as the form to submit: bit.ly/4omBJ6o
I find this distraction discourse unhelpful. Trump's video was appalling and significant and should be analyzed and denounced, and part of the work of politics is to turn it into a major controversy in its own right, as a symbol of Trump's autocratic disdain for the people.
01.11.2025 20:04 — 👍 928 🔁 175 💬 40 📌 10
I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...
30.10.2025 19:38 — 👍 1243 🔁 440 💬 49 📌 39I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
31.10.2025 08:19 — 👍 17232 🔁 6985 💬 719 📌 1223
Krisen, Frust oder Angst vor dem sozialen Abstieg, das sind einige Ansätze, um das zu erklären: Warum so schnell viel mehr Menschen radikal rechte Parteien unterstützen, nicht nur in D. Seltener wird geschaut, inwiefern die Einstellungen schon da waren. share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe... 1/
31.10.2025 07:09 — 👍 72 🔁 30 💬 8 📌 2“Not everything that is buried is dead.” Heinrich Heine
30.10.2025 15:30 — 👍 34 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps
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"The End of (US) Aid? Discussing the future of Aid and Crisis Response"
📆 19.11.2025, 6PM 📍 C3, Sensengasse 3
💬 Lisa Ann Richey (Kopenhagen Business School), Elisabeth Leitner (World Vision Austria), Zeric K. Smith (former USAID).
🎤 @schl.bsky.social
ℹ️👉 www.oefse.at/veranstaltun...
Local Labor Market Effects of the 2002 Bush Steel Tariffs† By James Lake and Ding Liu* President George W. Bush imposed safeguard tariffs on steel in early 2002. Using US input-output tables and a generalized difference-in-difference methodology, we analyze the local labor market employment effects of these tariffs depending on the local labor market’s reliance on steel as an input and as part of local production. The tariffs did not boost local steel employment but substantially depressed local employment in steel-consuming industries for many years after Bush removed them. The tariffs also led to a persistent exit of steel-intensive manufacturing establishments, suggesting a role for plant-level fixed entry costs in translating the temporary shock into persistent outcomes
The large increase in steel tariffs under GW Bush did not cause an increase in steel-industry employment.
But it did hurt the US industries that use steel to make things, reducing employment there long after the tariffs were gone.
New in @aeajournals.bsky.social —> doi.org/10.1257/pol....
1️⃣🌍 “A world of crises and complexity is pushing traditional bureaucracies to their limit. What does this mean for Austria’s development policy?" 🇦🇹
That’s the central question @schl.bsky.social & Robert Zeiner ask in a new briefing paper. 📝
👉 www.oefse.at/publikatione...
One year ago
27.10.2025 12:22 — 👍 4383 🔁 1784 💬 69 📌 115The rules have changed—there’s no room for bothsidesing or whataboutism anymore. Given the current trajectory, mainstream media is likely to be replaced by more pro-regime outlets. bsky.app/profile/soci....
17.02.2025 13:29 — 👍 27 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 1
📚 In a world where aid budgets are under pressure & global trade faces renewed barriers, @sbrazys_ucd’s The Invisible Hand(out): Aid, Access, and Unequal Globalization, one of the latest in the DSA–OUP book series, could not be more timely.
@oupacademic.bsky.social
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Another autumn poem by Georg Trakl.
My translation of course from Autumnal Elegies.
#trakl #poetry #booksky
How is this even real? Check out the White House's Major Events Timeline. #stayclassymyfriends www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
24.10.2025 01:08 — 👍 40 🔁 15 💬 8 📌 3Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities…
23.10.2025 03:31 — 👍 8879 🔁 2700 💬 351 📌 260Extremely ominous, once we realize that, by “what happened in the 2020 election”, he means “we lose an election”…
22.10.2025 12:33 — 👍 52 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 0Ein Gespräch von drei Hoover Historikern. Sehr interessant, sollte man sich in Deutschland anschauen, wenn man Aspekte der aktuellen US Situation verstehen will. Vor allem als Deutscher fühlt man sich an das konservative Bürgertum der frühen 1930er Jahre erinnert.
22.10.2025 10:18 — 👍 40 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 0
🚨 MPs launch inquiry into the future of #UKAid as budget set to fall 40% from £15.4bn → £9.2bn by 2027
Committee will examine how to maintain impact amid cuts, shifting from donor-led aid to partnerships & investment.
⏳Submit by 31 Oct
👉https://buff.ly/UClQ30c
"A new Independent North–South Commission could offer a credible response to today’s fragmentation by providing a structured space for international dialogue grounded in fairness, feasibility, and forward-thinking."
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2283
Frugal EU member states would actually profit from a bigger EU-budget if support for green industries is well designed, I argue in this piece and describe what ”well-designed” could mean including good governance. ecfr.eu/publication/... @ecfr.eu
21.10.2025 07:48 — 👍 6 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
"From a middle-income country perspective in the Global South, current changes may be seen as liberating, or even as a long wished-for dismantling of the Western power hegemony and an opportunity for establishing a fairer multilateralism"
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2380
Adam Smith may have won the intellectual battle of ideas, but mercantilism has survived, and sometimes to good effects, from Dani Rodrik www.nber.org/papers/w34353
16.10.2025 21:02 — 👍 47 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 3Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
18.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 18226 🔁 4814 💬 209 📌 422We need @wikipedia.org and we will support it.
I regularly donate, and I'd appreciate it if you considered doing so now—> donate.wikimedia.org
Wished there was a positive spin here. Yeah, solar PV and batteries…, but this is scary
wmo.int/news/media-c...
For the mathematicians in the room, that's the 3rd derivative pointing in the wrong direction.
The plus 3.5 ppm CO₂ means we're at 423.9 ppm. That increase is still increasing at an increasing rate.
Globally averaged CO2 concentration (a) and its growth rate (b) from 1984 to 2024. Increases in successive annual means are shown as the shaded columns in (b). The red line in (a) is the monthly mean with the seasonal variation removed; the blue dots and blue line in (a) depict the monthly averages. Observations from 179 stations were used for this analysis.
Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s.
It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling.
Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.
Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.
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