Monthly Archives: November 2019

‘Baby Boomers Style Thinking’ and Volume Crazy Economic Data: Are They Getting Irrelevant?

This week, there was an article in Linked-in by Lex Sokolin, explaining the reasoning behind ‘memetic dismissal of the Millennials – ‘Ok, Boomer!’ and linking it to fin-tech developments. He wrote this: Chlöe Swarbrick, a 25-year old climate MP was presenting her climate change case to the New Zealand parliament, and was heckled by an […]

Can Sustainable Finance Catch-Up With Young People’s Sense of Urgency?

This post was originally posted in Linked-in on November 5, 2019 Last week, there were series of meetings on sustainable development and Sustainable Development Goals in Istanbul as Professor Jeffrey Sachs, head of UN SDSN was visiting town. I was at two of them; BCSD Turkey’s Sustainable Finance Meeting and SDSN Turkey’s meeting at Bogazici […]

Transforming Development With Food?

This post was originally posted in Linked-in on September 30,2019 Whenever possible, I try to attend conferences that I am personally interested in, other than the economic issues. And yet, if the conference holders adopt a multidisciplinary approach, issues are almost always related to economic development as well. Last week, I attended an international food […]