Here is an incredible number: From 2002 to 2012 the World Bank and its client governments invested $9 billion dollars across 93 skills training programs
Enlisting the help of his friends Carlos was able to secure a three-month trial contract with Botafogo that gave them the option of playing him
That’s not the actual title of Jesse Singal’s latest article, but it is the URL, and I like it better. Singal (the same journalist who
Thomas Abt (one of my favorite policy wonks) on violence reduction in America Condoms that detect STIs have been invented. Disconcerting fact: Inventors were 13
A San Francisco biotech startup has managed to 3D print fake rhino horns that carry the same genetic fingerprint as the actual horn. It plans
Practitioners and academics have learned so much, and yet the governments, publics, and agencies fail to change. Or so my despondent self sometimes feels. Then
Some amazing aerial photos of Mexico City. Hat tip to @maxcroser who has one of the more interesting Twitter feeds I discovered this year.
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. NPR and Pro-Publica have a new exposé titled “How the Red Cross Raised Half a
Infovores are indeed much better off from the recent digital revolution. And since most journalists and tech leaders are infovores (many academics too), they extrapolate
“more than one-third of couples who married in the United States from 2005 to 2012 met online.” I tricked Kate Cronin-Furman into writing this: “Is
Nathan Yau at Flowing Data has a lot of time on his hands, and thank goodness, because he has recreated a 150 year old atlas
there is something of a tyranny of ideas in seeing the political divisions of states (primarily, national states) as being, in some way, fundamental, and
That’s not exactly what Michael Barnett and Peter Walker say in the latest Foreign Affairs, but it is a reasonable or at least tempting extrapolation.
The list of indicted people is here. Much is being made of South Africa’s failure to arrest Sudanese President Bashir, as he fled back home
The videos are up from last week’s Annual Bank Conference on Africa (ABCA) on violence and fragility. Among them are Ted Miguel on climate change
In general, the French government recommends that its citizens “adopt a reserved manner with persons of the opposite sex” while in the United States. This
Noahpinion proves why he is one of the best economics tweeters, with a riff on the winners and losers from the quasi-experimental shift in economics.
A fewf years ago a reader wrote me to ask how old is too old to start a PhD. Will schools penalize your application, and
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. The Wall Street Journal had a very good feature article on how insights from behavioral
I’m at a conference where researchers are looking back at the consequences of and lessons from the West Africa Ebola outbreak. Videos should be online
