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	<title>Indy Telecom &#38; Industrial Media &#187; Economics</title>
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	<description>Would you like fries with that?</description>
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		<title>Development as Freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2010/01/22/development-as-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amartya Sen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Famines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I rarely recommend textbooks as good reads. Not that they aren&#8217;t, of course, but they often tend to be academic in nature and therefore of little interest to anyone other than academics (and unfortunate students).
However, I&#8217;m taking a class by Professor Stephen P. Marks on World Poverty &#38; Human Rights this Spring, and one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IPE Research Paper: Asian Financial Crisis &amp; Exchange Rate Regimes</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2010/01/14/ipe-research-paper-asian-financial-crisis-exchange-rate-regimes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2010/01/14/ipe-research-paper-asian-financial-crisis-exchange-rate-regimes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Political Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1997]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1998]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emerging Market]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The topic and abstract for my IPE term paper that I had originally planned turned out to be a little too broad in its scope. As a result, my final paper had a much tighter focus.
Fluctuation &#38; Flexibility: A Case Study of Exchange Rate Regimes from the 1997-1998 East Asian Crisis
The choice between fixed and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visualizing Bank Failures</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2009/12/22/visualizing-bank-failures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2009/12/22/visualizing-bank-failures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Visualization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fascinating visualization of US bank failures by the folks at Computational Legal Studies. 

The interesting thing to note, of course, are the three key takeaways:


Acceleration: There were four failures in the first six months of 2008, followed by another 22 failures in the next six months.  By January of 2009, there were 21 failures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>50 Years of Global Nominal Spending History</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2009/11/13/50-years-of-global-nominal-spending-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2009/11/13/50-years-of-global-nominal-spending-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Excellent (and controversial) summary chart of the global macro-economic history of the past ~50 years by David Beckworth.

Of course, the chart has sparked some interesting takes by Paul Krugman and Alex Tabarrok, amongst others.
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		<title>Credit Crisis in Graphs</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2009/10/11/credit-crisis-in-graphs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2009/10/11/credit-crisis-in-graphs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Visualization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to post this for a while now.
Some time ago, the WSJ had an excellent interactive graphic that chronicled the timeline of credit crisis by stacking the 6 key financial indicators through these two years.
The key indicators were DJIA, Treasury Yields, Libor, Commercial Paper Yields, CDS Spreads &#38; Mortgage Backed-Securities Spreads.

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		<title>Microfinance Heat Map of Average Yield</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2009/10/03/microfinance-heat-map-of-average-yield/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2009/10/03/microfinance-heat-map-of-average-yield/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Visualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microfinance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heat Map]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MFI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microfinance Institutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yield]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a slightly better attempt at creating a heat map, this time with the Google Gadgets API.
The heat map below is that of the Average Gross Yield (Nominal) of MFI institutions from various countries in the world.  The yield is in percentage (i.e. .06=6% and .85=85%). 

Data was sourced from MIX Market.
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		<title>Predicted Average Inflation for G8 &amp; BRIC Economies</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2009/10/02/predicted-average-inflation-for-g8-bric-economies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2009/10/02/predicted-average-inflation-for-g8-bric-economies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Visualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Average]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BRIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a fun visualization created using Google&#8217;s Visualization API. 
The data was queried from International Monetary Fund&#8217;s World Economic Outlook Database, October 2009.

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		<title>Debt vs GDP Percentage</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2009/09/21/debt-vs-gdp-percentage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2009/09/21/debt-vs-gdp-percentage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Visualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debt as GDP % for the top 20 debtor nations &#8212; if you notice, despite our high debt, we are quite a bit lower on the totem pole.


Data was sourced from Index Mundi.
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		<title>India&#8217;s Merchandise Trade (redux)</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2009/09/21/indias-merchandise-trade-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2009/09/21/indias-merchandise-trade-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merchandise Trade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have talked about India&#8217;s merchandise trade here before. Looking at the First Quarter Review for 2009-2010 published by the RBI, things don&#8217;t seem to have improved a whole lot (although the markets certainly are showing some signs of an upturn).

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		<title>Debt Over Time: US/China/World</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2009/09/18/debt-over-time-uschinaworld/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2009/09/18/debt-over-time-uschinaworld/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comparison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, more debt stuff. Here&#8217;s a chart showing the comparison of debt between the US, China and the World, with percentages.


Data was sourced from Index Mundi.
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