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Improve Devlopment Lending to Build Resilience

Andrew Revkin writes in the New York Times about a recent world bank report that finds that the world bank is not lending in ways that invest in natural capital or resilience (The report is online at worldbank.org/oed). However, there … Continue reading

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Absolute poverty in China: Higher, but going down faster than previously estimated

From the Economist: In December 2007 the World Bank unveiled the results of the biggest exercise in window shopping in history. Scouts in 146 countries scoured stalls, supermarkets and mail-order catalogues, recording the price of more than 1,000 items, from … Continue reading

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Mobile phones and global communication

The spread of mobile phones across the developing world has been extremely rapid in the past few years (e.g. 4X increase between 2001-2005 in Africa). The BBC reports on the annual Information Economy report from the UN conference on trade … Continue reading

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