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Hacking 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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Where Are the Real BOP Stories?
?It makes good journalistic fodder, but it?s just the same story over and over!? This was fellow blogger Rob Katz?s comment when I called him about posting a story on the Strappity-do-da company. His frustration was similar to that expressed by Ethan when he complained about...
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Development at 50,000 Feet
George Soros is giving $50 million toward poverty-alleviation programs in Africa- at the same time, the Gates and Rockefeller Foundation are donating $150 million to increase African agricultural production (Read more by Rob Katz on this). Are we seeing a trend here? Development initiatives...
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Whose Technology Is it?
The global cell phone market recently passed 2.5 billion connections, having grown by 500 million in 12 months. A quarter of this growth is attributable to India and China. In the latter country 5 million new connections are added every month. As a result of this staggering growth rate,...
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Gates, Rockefeller Intend to Re-create Green Revolution for Africa
UPDATE: Peter Timmer of the Center for Global Development is skeptical about the program. The Washington Post reports this morning that the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations will partner to jump-start an African Green Revolution: The Africa program will begin with a relatively small Gates...
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Making Globalization Work for Women: What is the Role of the Development Community?
James Ferguson?s critique of the development paradigm in The Anti-politics Machine focuses on work international agencies were doing in LeSotho to increase family incomes and create a larger cattle market. If I remember the book correctly, the scheme fails due in part to the assumption that...
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Corruption and the Private Sector
This month’s issue of Development Outreach ? a World Bank Institute magazine ? focuses on the private sector’s role in stemming corruption. Articles range from general overviews of related issues to academic discussions of corruption measurement to specific reports from the field,...
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Development Reading Roundup: Stiglitz sets the Academic Sandbox Ablaze, Brookings is Decidedly Less
I am forever humbled by the ability of those in academia to engage in and inspire catfights that rival some of the verbal battles I observed tutoring elementary school children last year. Few bring it out worse than Joseph Stiglitz, who recently released his new book Making Globalization Work,...
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