Linda Nemec

Linda Nemec

Linda Nemec is an economic development practitioner, analyst, and observer who has held positions in the U.S. government and private sector. She began her career as an economic analyst focused on the Soviet Union. She worked in Russia for Sprint, and then set up and trained networks to sell telecom equipment in Russia, which led to her career in the development industry. Nemec has designed and implemented programs in Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia at DAI, Dexis, and Citizens Democracy Corps to promote economic development. She headed a project supporting USAID in its efforts to engage the private sector in development and then joined Accenture Development Partnerships in a similar capacity. She returned to research and analysis in 2014 as vice president of Navanti Group, a private company which helps governments and companies make better decisions through better data on local communities in developing countries.


7 entries by Linda Nemec

Book Review

Welfare for the Rich

By Phil Harvey and Lisa Conyers

Welfare for the Rich

The scope of corporate grift may be astonishing, say the authors of this informative work, but voters aren’t powerless to combat it.

Book Review

Welfare for the Rich: How Your Tax Dollars End Up in Millionaires’ Pockets — and What You Can Do About It

The scope of corporate grift may be astonishing, say the authors of this informative work, but voters aren’t powerless to combat it.

Book Review

What We Owe

By Carlo Cottarelli

What We Owe

This excruciatingly relevant work reads like a textbook but remains a worthy undertaking.

Book Review

A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

A Nobel laureate offers practical advice for re-imagining the concept of capitalism.

Book Review

What We Owe: Truths, Myths, and Lies About Public Debt

This excruciatingly relevant work reads like a textbook but remains a worthy undertaking.

Book Review

By Donald Craig Mitchell

Wampum: How Indian Tribes, the Mafia, and an Inattentive Congress Invented Indian Gaming and Created

This engaging and disturbing look at how big money changes everything reads like “Game of Thrones” in a business suit.

Book Review

The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World

How the lives of the poor have improved in the last half-century — and how that progress can continue.