Fathers wanted but not necessary, and other links for the long weekend

by Dana on July 1, 2010

FT- It is quite clear that an isolated discussion of the need to reduce fiscal deficits will not work.

oecd.org- Since 1990, the number of people worldwide living in absolute poverty has fallen by about half a billion. What’s changed? In large part, China.

spiked-online.com- If growth scepticism were to be summed up in one phrase, it is “I’m in favour of economic growth, but…”’.

WSJ- Danone is among a vanguard of Western multinationals staking much of their future on the world’s poor.

thegreenskeptic.com- Drive 100 miles and you need to charge up, and there is currently very little infrastructure to support electric vehicle charging.

Voxeu- Do buyers discriminate based on race?

eurointelligence.com- If excessive austerity is imposed on Spain, the result will be even more miserable than for Korea, with at least as bad international impact.

NY Times- Ireland is pinning nearly all its hopes on an export revival to lift the economy.

blogs.telegraph.co.uk- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says the Fed is slowly losing its marbles.

tnr.com- “Is this revolution a creature of globalization, or does global capitalism owe some of its energy and resilience to global English in all its manifestations?”

theatlantic.com- A paternal contribution may not be as essential as we think.

telegraph.co.uk- Women’s bodies have become so associated with sex that now a mothers’ magazine has called breast-feeding ‘creepy’.

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