Comment on “Explaining Japan's Unproductive Two Decades”

On Explaining Asia’s “Missing Women”: Comment on Das Gupta

IN AN EARLIER issue of this journal, Monica Das Gupta (2005) comments on a recent paper of mine. Her comment was based on Oster (2005a), a working paper version of Oster (2005b); in general, the two versions do not differ , but I will distinguish between them when they do. In that paper, I attempt to connect the issue of the gender imbalance in Asia—the " missing women " —with the prevalence of...

Comment on Demonstrations of Shor's Algorithm in the Past Decades

We remark that the experimental demonstrations of Shor’s algorithm in the past decades are falsely claimed and flawed, because they had used too less qubits in the first quantum register to accomplish the step of Continued Fraction Expansion in Shor’s algorithm. More worse, the amount of qubits used in some experiments are too less to represent all residues modulo n, which means that the number...

An Analysis of Aid Information Management Systems (AIMS) in Developing Countries: Explaining the Last Two Decades

Aid information management systems (AIMS) are information and communication technology (ICT) applications that enable donors and recipient governments to open and share aid data. Despite the popularity of AIMS and current trends favouring ‘open aid’, little research has been conducted in the field of ICT in the international aid sector. The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical discuss...

Explaining Changes in Child Poverty Over the Past Four Decades

The New Perspective on Paul: an Appraisal Two Decades On

The so-called New Perspective on Paul (NPP) has been likened to a Copernican revolution. Whether one is inclined to defend or assail it, the fact remains that Pauline studies will never be the same again. Some may try to ignore it, but apparently it is not going away, at least not anytime soon. And while many may wish that it would go away, it is my impression that much of the controversy that ...