Retweeted by Owen Barder@raziakkhan that can't be right? If per capita GDP had tripled, then total GDP would have more-than-tripled?@domhaslam123 that's fine but the key ones are EU, World Bank, ADF. Should they get (much) more?@carlkalapesi we did. Have you got it?
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Retweeted by Owen Barder@raziakkhan that can't be right? If per capita GDP had tripled, then total GDP would have more-than-tripled?@domhaslam123 that's fine but the key ones are EU, World Bank, ADF. Should they get (much) more?@carlkalapesi we did. Have you got it?
Retweeted by Owen Barder@raziakkhan that can't be right? If per capita GDP had tripled, then total GDP would have more-than-tripled?@domhaslam123 that's fine but the key ones are EU, World Bank, ADF. Should they get (much) more?@carlkalapesi we did. Have you got it?
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@Nigeriawhatsnew Perhaps you didn't read the paper?@owenbarder yes. If it leaves more people working on what's left.
Retweeted by Owen BarderAnyone want to join me in giving written evidence to International Development Committee on case for larger share of aid via multilaterals?The case for cash transfers to the poor, instead of donor driven solutions, is getting stronger and stronger. http://t.co/ARR1d3c70G@johnb78 @dsquareddigest That is also true, and it shouldn't be.@dsquareddigest @johnb78 Well I now know that the contract forbids it!@johnb78 We wanted to leave the airport but the ONLY way to get on another flight is to join a 5 hour queue@johnb78 If they want me out of the airport, why couldn't the call centre put us on the flight out of here which had seats?@British_Airways Thanks. My complaint is not mainly the cancellation of the flight, but the world-beatingly bad service which ensued.@dsquareddigest @johnb78 I would prefer the optimal distribution of staff doing both.@British_Airways Thanks. Do you think it would have been a good idea to inform us the flight was cancelled, for example by email?@johnb78 I agree. Our situation is not as bad as being locked in a cupboard. Hence my #FirstWorldProblems hashtag.@johnb78 I don't think you are comprehending quite how bad the @british_airways customer service is here today.@johnb78 Who benefits from contracts which forbid a company from making an offer of overtime to its employees?@johnb78 Their contracts say they cannot be offered overtime?@johnb78 It is not my view that because a workforce is unionised, the business must provide a lousy service.@johnb78 @dsquareddigest there is some amount of money they could pay staff to come in voluntarily and deal with the queues.@johnb78 @dsquareddigest So runway constraints explain (a) no notification that the flight was cancelled; (b) 4-5 hour queues for service?@johnb78 If they had more customer service agents they could have transferred us onto non-BA, non-full flights to the same destination@dsquareddigest @johnb78 Ok, it does. But it shouldn't.@johnb78 Yes, I would be in favour of calling in people who are off duty. that is what serious businesses do.@johnb78 But they are NOT sorting out the short-haul rotations. No replacement flights (until Sunday).@johnb78 Nor does it explain why a quarter of the customer service desks are staffed to get people onto later flights.@johnb78 That incident doesn't explain why flights departing 8 hours later were cancelled.Three hours so far in the queue for what @British_Airways laughingly call customer service at Heathrow. #FirstWorldProblems@KarenGrepin I think you are OK if you are not on a BA flight to a European destination.Me: why didn't you tell the passengers the flight was cancelled? @British_airways check in clerk: we had other things to worry about.@stevept I can blame them for cancelling their flights for the rest of the day as a consequence.Every time I try to fly @British_Airways I promise myself I will never, ever do it again. #neverlearn@alexcobham @davidmwessel eating a steak?Kudos to @GdnGlobalDevPro for launching new 'hub' on #adolescentgirls http://t.co/tCi8GpEQnq@benphillips76 Indeed not. That is why I am proud of our work to reform the system and policy failures which lead to poverty.@benphillips76 @clairemelamed just want to say I think you're both lovely, fluffy people, totally committed to good not evil. Chillax dudes
Retweeted by Owen Barder@benphillips76 As a wonk, I am proud of my work eg to get pneumo vaccine to millions of children and to make aid more effective.@alb202 I agree. It is disorienting from a nation apparently founded on such noble and inspiring principles.@benphillips76 I make a regular donation to Oxfam precisely in the expectation you will do just that!@benphillips76 I thought you were just hitching yourself to the bandwagon so you can claim success later?@benphillips76 No.@benphillips76 Perhaps you hadn't noticed that the Government is ALREADY DOING what you are calling on them to do?Development Analytics - doing evidence-based research on social policies. http://t.co/wXeUKZohjZ@benphillips76 I certainly don't agree with your proposals for a Robin Hood In Reverse Tax.@benphillips76 I personally think that the agenda on the issues you care about is hindered, not helped, by half baked propaganda.@benphillips76 Whereas a third of my team works full time on illicit financial flows and tax havens. Doing actual research.@benphillips76 @clairemelamed Neither I nor any member of my team spends ANY time focusing on NGOs, other than teasing you on Twitter.@benphillips76 do you mean banks as in the institutions in parlous financial health, or as in people's bank accounts?@clairemelamed @benphillips76 I think that is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the moral high ground ...In case you missed this: @HansRosling - the man who's making data cool http://t.co/dwBbx4mS5K #globaldev
Retweeted by Owen Barder@clairemelamed Being technically correct is not as important as the politics and incentives. As always.@clairemelamed Importantly, it works better than spending the money for them, which is what aid agencies, NGOs etc like to do.@CalumDavey That's exactly right. It is weird and bad.EU Commission communication on maximising the development impact of migration http://t.co/1d8jQMXiiz OK but focuses on countries not people@WorldBank gives @governwell 's "PDIA" a test drive in Sierra Leone…positive results so far! http://t.co/Kk8uaOAGNF #Globaldev
Retweeted by Owen Barder@owenbarder - we did some dark things in Northern Ireland and recently had indefinite detention without trial until the courts stopped it.
Retweeted by Owen Barder@EITIorg's Clare Short: Everyone here should be proud, but now we need to move from #transparency to proper #accountability.
Retweeted by Owen Barder@Clive_Bates Agred. But I don't think Guatanamo could happen here, could it?@alb202 I suspect it is more open, more institutionalized in the US. Sort of global Jim Crow.Phrase of the day: "Post-goat narrative" http://t.co/uHy8jJmAv4 from @fp2p's post on planning and redesigning aid for complex systems
Retweeted by Owen BarderInformation Is Driving a New Revolution in Manufacturing: Scientific American http://t.co/4u14uJamPW via @sciam
Retweeted by Owen BarderIntrigued by @involve paper. How to have more mature discussion about #complexity in #development http://t.co/KQ4fDDz5kH
Retweeted by Owen Barder
Retweeted by Owen BarderAnyone want to join me in giving written evidence to International Development Committee on case for larger share of aid via multilaterals?The case for cash transfers to the poor, instead of donor driven solutions, is getting stronger and stronger. http://t.co/ARR1d3c70G@johnb78 @dsquareddigest That is also true, and it shouldn't be.@dsquareddigest @johnb78 Well I now know that the contract forbids it!@johnb78 We wanted to leave the airport but the ONLY way to get on another flight is to join a 5 hour queue@johnb78 If they want me out of the airport, why couldn't the call centre put us on the flight out of here which had seats?@British_Airways Thanks. My complaint is not mainly the cancellation of the flight, but the world-beatingly bad service which ensued.@dsquareddigest @johnb78 I would prefer the optimal distribution of staff doing both.@British_Airways Thanks. Do you think it would have been a good idea to inform us the flight was cancelled, for example by email?@johnb78 I agree. Our situation is not as bad as being locked in a cupboard. Hence my #FirstWorldProblems hashtag.@johnb78 I don't think you are comprehending quite how bad the @british_airways customer service is here today.@johnb78 Who benefits from contracts which forbid a company from making an offer of overtime to its employees?@johnb78 Their contracts say they cannot be offered overtime?@johnb78 It is not my view that because a workforce is unionised, the business must provide a lousy service.@johnb78 @dsquareddigest there is some amount of money they could pay staff to come in voluntarily and deal with the queues.@johnb78 @dsquareddigest So runway constraints explain (a) no notification that the flight was cancelled; (b) 4-5 hour queues for service?@johnb78 If they had more customer service agents they could have transferred us onto non-BA, non-full flights to the same destination@dsquareddigest @johnb78 Ok, it does. But it shouldn't.@johnb78 Yes, I would be in favour of calling in people who are off duty. that is what serious businesses do.@johnb78 But they are NOT sorting out the short-haul rotations. No replacement flights (until Sunday).@johnb78 Nor does it explain why a quarter of the customer service desks are staffed to get people onto later flights.@johnb78 That incident doesn't explain why flights departing 8 hours later were cancelled.Three hours so far in the queue for what @British_Airways laughingly call customer service at Heathrow. #FirstWorldProblems@KarenGrepin I think you are OK if you are not on a BA flight to a European destination.Me: why didn't you tell the passengers the flight was cancelled? @British_airways check in clerk: we had other things to worry about.@stevept I can blame them for cancelling their flights for the rest of the day as a consequence.Every time I try to fly @British_Airways I promise myself I will never, ever do it again. #neverlearn@alexcobham @davidmwessel eating a steak?Kudos to @GdnGlobalDevPro for launching new 'hub' on #adolescentgirls http://t.co/tCi8GpEQnq@benphillips76 Indeed not. That is why I am proud of our work to reform the system and policy failures which lead to poverty.@benphillips76 @clairemelamed just want to say I think you're both lovely, fluffy people, totally committed to good not evil. Chillax dudes Retweeted by Owen Barder@benphillips76 As a wonk, I am proud of my work eg to get pneumo vaccine to millions of children and to make aid more effective.@alb202 I agree. It is disorienting from a nation apparently founded on such noble and inspiring principles.@benphillips76 I make a regular donation to Oxfam precisely in the expectation you will do just that!@benphillips76 I thought you were just hitching yourself to the bandwagon so you can claim success later?@benphillips76 No.@benphillips76 Perhaps you hadn't noticed that the Government is ALREADY DOING what you are calling on them to do?Development Analytics - doing evidence-based research on social policies. http://t.co/wXeUKZohjZ@benphillips76 I certainly don't agree with your proposals for a Robin Hood In Reverse Tax.@benphillips76 I personally think that the agenda on the issues you care about is hindered, not helped, by half baked propaganda.@benphillips76 Whereas a third of my team works full time on illicit financial flows and tax havens. Doing actual research.@benphillips76 @clairemelamed Neither I nor any member of my team spends ANY time focusing on NGOs, other than teasing you on Twitter.@benphillips76 do you mean banks as in the institutions in parlous financial health, or as in people's bank accounts?@clairemelamed @benphillips76 I think that is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the moral high ground ...In case you missed this: @HansRosling - the man who's making data cool http://t.co/dwBbx4mS5K #globaldev Retweeted by Owen Barder@clairemelamed Being technically correct is not as important as the politics and incentives. As always.@clairemelamed Importantly, it works better than spending the money for them, which is what aid agencies, NGOs etc like to do.@CalumDavey That's exactly right. It is weird and bad.EU Commission communication on maximising the development impact of migration http://t.co/1d8jQMXiiz OK but focuses on countries not people@WorldBank gives @governwell 's "PDIA" a test drive in Sierra Leone…positive results so far! http://t.co/Kk8uaOAGNF #Globaldev Retweeted by Owen Barder@owenbarder - we did some dark things in Northern Ireland and recently had indefinite detention without trial until the courts stopped it. Retweeted by Owen Barder@EITIorg's Clare Short: Everyone here should be proud, but now we need to move from #transparency to proper #accountability. Retweeted by Owen Barder@Clive_Bates Agred. But I don't think Guatanamo could happen here, could it?@alb202 I suspect it is more open, more institutionalized in the US. Sort of global Jim Crow.Phrase of the day: "Post-goat narrative" http://t.co/uHy8jJmAv4 from @fp2p's post on planning and redesigning aid for complex systems Retweeted by Owen BarderInformation Is Driving a New Revolution in Manufacturing: Scientific American http://t.co/4u14uJamPW via @sciam Retweeted by Owen BarderIntrigued by @involve paper. How to have more mature discussion about #complexity in #development http://t.co/KQ4fDDz5kH Retweeted by Owen Barder
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I actually think Cameron's doing the right thing. Putting tax avoidance first with the G8. That's where change is needed. #bbcqt
Retweeted by Owen BarderSo BBC Question time has six guests of whom only one is a woman? #BBCQT@Clive_Bates Do you think theUK is as explicit about it, for example in our laws governing foreign operations?@zanchema I wonder if there are similar distinctions in UK law? Not as far as I know.@zaw56 It seems so incongruous with America's basic values.@zaw56 Yes, every time."foreign assistance is a tiny fraction of what we spend fighting wars that our assistance might ultimately prevent." http://t.co/AF3ugOid6jI am not comfortable with the way many Americans are more concerned about killing Americans than killing foreigners. #AllCreatedEqual"we need to stop projecting our own labor markets and biases and low opinions of our own self-control onto the poor" http://t.co/ARR1d3c70G@laurencechandy I accept that this has become a common definition. I'm saying i don't think it should be.@developingcory @owenbarder We should think of people in fuzzier terms, e.g. a probability of being poor given a set of observables.
Retweeted by Owen Barder@developingcory My concern is that the technocratic interest in lines against which we can measure progress has warped our view of poverty@developingcory Oxfam's claim that extreme poverty can be ended twice over with $150bn depends on a definition of poverty I don't accept.@developingcory Right - i think the number should be more like $10 or $15 a day.@developingcory we have got ourselves into a sorry position when we no longer recognise someone on $1.26 a day as living in extreme poverty@developingcory Indeed. And about 2.4 billion live on less than $2 a day, which seems even more important? @altmandanielHow to help the poor? Give them cash. From @cblatts http://t.co/ARR1d3c70G@laurencechandy I'm saying, I don't want to be part of an orthodoxy that says that $1.26 PPP is not absolute poverty @altmandanielThere is no longer an excuse for letting your Twitter account be hacked. Enable dual factor authentication http://t.co/eIMS0u3fB0UK joins EITI. http://t.co/Uqe1BooQIG@meowtree really? stop measuring outputs?
Retweeted by Owen BarderSo BBC Question time has six guests of whom only one is a woman? #BBCQT@Clive_Bates Do you think theUK is as explicit about it, for example in our laws governing foreign operations?@zanchema I wonder if there are similar distinctions in UK law? Not as far as I know.@zaw56 It seems so incongruous with America's basic values.@zaw56 Yes, every time."foreign assistance is a tiny fraction of what we spend fighting wars that our assistance might ultimately prevent." http://t.co/AF3ugOid6jI am not comfortable with the way many Americans are more concerned about killing Americans than killing foreigners. #AllCreatedEqual"we need to stop projecting our own labor markets and biases and low opinions of our own self-control onto the poor" http://t.co/ARR1d3c70G@laurencechandy I accept that this has become a common definition. I'm saying i don't think it should be.@developingcory @owenbarder We should think of people in fuzzier terms, e.g. a probability of being poor given a set of observables. Retweeted by Owen Barder@developingcory My concern is that the technocratic interest in lines against which we can measure progress has warped our view of poverty@developingcory Oxfam's claim that extreme poverty can be ended twice over with $150bn depends on a definition of poverty I don't accept.@developingcory Right - i think the number should be more like $10 or $15 a day.@developingcory we have got ourselves into a sorry position when we no longer recognise someone on $1.26 a day as living in extreme poverty@developingcory Indeed. And about 2.4 billion live on less than $2 a day, which seems even more important? @altmandanielHow to help the poor? Give them cash. From @cblatts http://t.co/ARR1d3c70G@laurencechandy I'm saying, I don't want to be part of an orthodoxy that says that $1.26 PPP is not absolute poverty @altmandanielThere is no longer an excuse for letting your Twitter account be hacked. Enable dual factor authentication http://t.co/eIMS0u3fB0UK joins EITI. http://t.co/Uqe1BooQIG@meowtree really? stop measuring outputs?
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@BeyondAid They may not (but I wish they would).@BeyondAid the purpose of governments is to balance competing interests and express society's values. That is not the purpose of companies.It isn't just Apple - @alexcobham on the lessons from hearings into multinational tax on both sides of the Atlantic http://t.co/Oixk6nRbpe@viewfromthecave Please do: I may not be able to help but will try. obarder@cgdev.org@GdnDevelopment are you going to do some journalism and check if this Oxfam calculation makes any sense?@altmandaniel @fp2p @oxfam @BrookingsInst Furthermore, it is weird for Oxfam to take the view that $1.26 a day is NOT absolute poverty@tobyecc With an international agreement about division of the tax base to prevent profit shifting, competition on rates less worrying@tobyecc I'm always suspicious of retroactive legislation, but I'm in favour of killing schemes that are taking the mickey.@emrys_s It is politically convenient to scapegoat companies (or 'plutocrats' in my twitter feed today) rather than governments.Blog post by @fp2p about @cgdev event with @governwell talking about institutional reform: http://t.co/i8KyDZKSwU@BeyondAid Anyone who expects firms to become moral actors.@BeyondAid http://t.co/P6XZLc2OXeFocus on upcoming Australia #G20 leadership at @AusAID in Canberra. Looking for new big ideas where G20 can make a difference. Suggestions??
Retweeted by Owen BarderGlobal development podcast: what's at stake at the G8? http://t.co/9QiTAFSAA9
Retweeted by Owen Barder@benphillips76 I'm not 'aiming' at charity; I am defending the right of business to lobby governments like anyone else. I deplore neither.@BeyondAid I think they are a category mistake.
Retweeted by Owen BarderGlobal development podcast: what's at stake at the G8? http://t.co/9QiTAFSAA9 Retweeted by Owen Barder@benphillips76 I'm not 'aiming' at charity; I am defending the right of business to lobby governments like anyone else. I deplore neither.@BeyondAid I think they are a category mistake.
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