I love the new World Bank data site. The site makes finding and downloading data from the World Development Indicators very easy. But, I dream of searching the World Bank databases and downloading datasets directly into Stata all without leaving my Stata terminal. The World Bank offers an API for it’s data that has already [...]

A friend of mine recently asked me how an economist might solve the issue of subsidies to the world’s fisheries, which some including myself, think are promoting overexploitation of fish around the world. I kept my response as short as possible (sometimes I get wordy in e-mail) but wanted to expand on some ideas here. [...]