Communism’s durability; Sachs v Easterly; 4 degrees of warming; a map of the crisis; hype v reality on GM and when bloggers took over the world (well, the G20 anyway): links I liked

Banyan, the Economist’s new Asia columnist, explores the durability of Chinese communism

Bill Easterly and Jeff Sachs get into an escalating mutual hissy fit over aid, which originally had something to do with Dambisa Moyo, but seems to have acquired its own momentum

A handy map on how to survive four degrees of global warming, c/o New Scientist magazine- 

Another map from Brookings Institution’s detailed raking over of the IMF’s latest (end April) numbers on the crisis. This one shows the deterioration within a space of just six months in the IMF’s growth projections for 2009. Red is bad (more than 10% down)

A good overview of hype v reality on GM crops from the Institute of Development Studies

And finally, remember the London G20 and the blogfest that was the G20 Voice? Here’s the (6 minute) movie.