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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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New Paths to Development Forming in the Cradle of Microfinance
A Special on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) by the South Asia based Financial Express explores various angles of the evolving SME development movement from the very heart of the original microfinance revolution: Bangladesh.? Once you start really paying attention to...
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Looking Back On 9/11, Looking Forward to the Challenge of Inclusion
I was thinking of what to express as the United States enters a fifth year of reflection on the WTC attacks in 2001. Instead of getting into the charged debates over which countries were okay to invade, who has or has not told the truth and the like- instead of engaging in discussion over what...
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Inefficiency as Opportunity for the BOP
MIT’s entrepreneurship, innovation, and engineering for the BOP have been on our mind lately. Here’s another shout-out for the Techies. On September 21, the New York MIT Enterprise Forum will host Global Entrepreneurship: Inefficiency as Opportunity in the Developing World. The event...
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