As this blog continues to stray from a narrow development economics path, I feel compelled to consciously justify my choices for blog topics. As many of you out there, I am not immune to having many interests and keeping up with several of them. I am thoroughly, truly, madly, and deeply fascinated by people who manage to specialize in a certain field and follow through with it, making it their career and life calling. My own inability to control my self-diagnosed ADD has given me an insight into the multi-layered, multifaceted ways to even begin to discuss development economics. People always ask me what DevEc means to me. To me, it is a blend of cultural, social, basic micro- and macroeconomic, environmental, political, military, scientific, humanist, purposeful, engaging and informative understanding of the world on an individual, case-by-case, as well as global scale. How can we begin to search for solutions if we don't even grasp the nature of the problem? What if the problem is only a mere difference in all of the aforementioned characteristics derived from an artificially created divide we have drawn between OECD and non-OECD political entities?
Well, what does it mean to you?
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