Who are those turkeys on Twitter?
The image below belongs to Filippo Minelli's Contradictions series. The World Bank has at least 11 Twitter feeds (and probably many more that I am not aware of). Also check out his Flags series. Can...
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1. Pimp my rice (paddy)2. The World Bank talks about failure (with a little help from a Google transplant)3. Which country has the second highest number of gyms in the world (after the US)? (Hint: It...
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Coming Full Circle: Bucket baths at IFC
When I applied for work at the International Finance Corporation way back in 1996, I had no idea that the battle against poverty would involve so many bucket baths, or that I would be taking them...
View ArticleEnd-of-summer hiatus
The PSD Blog is going on an end-of-summer hiatus for the next two weeks. While we're away, check out our most popular posts from August if you missed them while at the beach:
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The biggest access gap?
Editor's Note: The following post was submitted jointly by Brendan Ahern (Bankable Frontier Associates) and Ignacio Mas (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation).
View ArticleMen with visions should go see a doctor
Or at least, that’s what a former boss of mine used to say. Undeterred by his wise advice, I was totally won over when Bryan Sivak, DC’s Chief Technology Officer, came to the World Bank a couple of...
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Friday links
1. Looking for that perfect gift? How about the flying humvee.2. Save the Children brings its work from a slum in Sierra Leone to your desktop.3. Six questions for SKS after going public.
View ArticleHappy peasants or frustrated achievers?
Is happiness an obstacle to economic progress? Economist Carol Graham asks the question:
View ArticleMaking the case for microsavings
Editor's Note: Jeanette Thomas is a Communications Manager at CGAP.
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1. Keynes vs. RCTs: Should we randomize stimulus spending?2. Replicating research results: a (very important) task only a mathematician could love3. Apps for Development: $15k for the top entrant
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Fantasy PSD
Is it the effect of the increasingly globalised football (soccer) industry? Or simply the guilty pleasure of winning prizes for daydreaming?
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1. Output-Based Aid: Now with its own database and cool interactive map.2. Bringing mobile phones to mobile (food cart) microentrepreneurs -- but will it make the food any tastier?3. Capitalist prices...
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1. Take a tax diet, the Brazilian way.2. The Economist's take on Doing Business 2011.
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