Articles by William Kramer
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Tuesday
October 3
2006Reporting Back from the Business in Development Challenge
I am just back from the BiD Challenge, described by Rob in his post from last week. Several programs from WRI participated in the Challenge event - ourselves and New Ventures. The day of events included a number of well-produced and well thought-out interchanges, including conversations with a...
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Friday
September 15
2006Hacking the Hundred Dollar Laptop
Whatever you think about Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop per Child from the policy and practicality perspectives, you can’t help but applaud what the project is doing on the technical side. The new issue of Technology Review has a fascinating article on the computer, and its innovative...
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Wednesday
September 6
2006Measuring Change: Doing Business 07 Released
You can only change what you measure. Doing Business 2007, just released, offers good evidence of the wisdom of this epigram. Whatever issues you might have with the way the World Bank Group does its work, it would be hard to quarrel with the value they are bringing to business climate...
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Friday
March 17
2006Jeff Sachs and the End of Poverty
Jeff Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York City, spoke Tuesday, March 14 at the Center for Global Development here in Washington. Professor Sachs has long been identified as a strong proponent of a publicly-led drive against global poverty. As Director of...
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Wednesday
October 19
2005The Tipping Point in India
"With the private sector booming, industry and services have overtaken farming to account for 54 percent of rural income.” This amazing factoid comes from an article that Rob Katz just posted from the International Herald Tribune: Poor rural India? It’s a richer place by Anand...
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Wednesday
August 3
2005More from Tallberg
The Conference ended this afternoon, and I just returned from a gala concert held in an old quarry about 30 minutes bus ride from here.? Quite a spectacular setting.? The Bolshoi Ballet Orchestra, two large singers, with a finale of Handel’s Water Music with fireworks.? Nice.Being too tired...
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Monday
August 1
2005Report from the Tallberg Forum
Tallberg, Sweden. Monday August 1, 7:10 pmYour intrepid correspondent is pulling tough duty by a lake three hours northwest of Stockholm, attending a conference (badly) titled “How on earth can we live together?” The conference, organized by the Tallberg Forum...
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Thursday
July 7
2005Live from Edinburgh 3
We just finished a “Breakfast Business Discussion” at the Raising Living Standards Conference in Edinburgh.? What struck me most was the consensus set of conclusions and suggestions which characterized seven separate table discussions.? At each table were senior business execs,...
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