Full Professor @ FLACSO Mexico. I study comparative public policy, water governance, waste management, public administration, environmental politics, homelessness, eldercare and care work, mixed/experimental methods.
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Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025
🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year
😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition
news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...
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Great work everyone.
Opposite of a shout-out to my fellow economists, who have collectively created a discipline so cravenly incapable of engaging with structural issues such as power and racism that I'm positive ALL our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.