Im going to talk today about something that has unconsciously and indirectly led to a tyranny of experts. Lets call it the technocratic approach to Economic Development. Its the idea that poverty is really just a set of technical robs, so that, for example problems, so that, for example, for malaria theres a variety of Technical Solutions. One of them involves spraying a chemical on the walls of peoples houses, on the inside walls of peoples houses to kill mosquitoes that carry malaria. Thats a technical solution. Another technical solution might be to convert land to higher valueses like from food crops that have low value to Forestry Products that have high value. Now let me tell you why this might, this purely technical approach to development which seems so appealing, so straightforward, so countercontroversial might, in fact, be not quite that easy. So heres the story. And this is not a happy story. This is not like do not think this is the runup to a punch to a joke. Ill try to w
Nice to have you here on the journal on dw in berlin. North korea threatens to scrap all nonagression pact with south korea after United Nations sanctions. Dozens had to caracas to their final farewell to hugo chavez. On International Womens day, we look at an initiative in india to train women cabdrivers. North korea says it is scrapping a nonagression pact with south korea and canceling the armistice agreement between them. These threats come after the United Nations Security Council put fresh sanctions on the communist country over its nuclear program. They have called for calm and restraint, saying the situation on the Korean Peninsula is highly complex and sensitive. The German Foreign minister has urged china to use its influence on pyongyang to stop its provocative actions. Propaganda and north korean style. State tv shows kim jong un visiting units close to the border with south korea. His focus is on a south korean island, a gesture aimed to provoke neighbors and please the no
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