A CGD blog. In this episode of Sounds Robotic, host Charles Kenny talks with Bright Simons, founder of the mPedigree Network and VP at the IMANI Center for Policy and Education, about the problems with the “leapfrogging” narrative of innovation in frontier markets, especially in Africa.
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Charles Kenny writes about global development — what’s working, what isn’t, and how the world can do better. An economist who spent fifteen years at the World Bank, he is now a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.
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In The Hill, railing about the the IDA Private Sector Window.
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A CGD blog. Chairwoman of the US House Committee on Financial Services Maxine Watersrecent intervention provides an opportunity for the Bank Group to rethink the Private Sector Window to better align with the International Finance Corporation’s 3.0 reform process, which was designed to inc…
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A CGD blog. Twenty-five years ago, travel writer and journalist Robert Kaplan wrote an article for The Atlantic: The Coming Anarchy It was an apocalyptic account of Kaplan’s visit to West Africa and his dark vision that much of the world would end up looking like war-torn Sie…
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A CGD blog. Today, the UN and Canada are launching the Elsie Initiative Fund for Uniformed Women in Peace Operations. The fund will accelerate the deployment of trained and qualified women in peacekeeping. It is a fantastic goal and the fund has an exciting design.
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In large part because the administration is turning away asylum seekers at regular crossing points. Me in The Economist.
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A CGD blog with Maya Forstater. Please join us next Thursday, March 14 at CGD’s DC office as we launch the Principles on Commercial Transparency in Public Contracts. At their heart is the idea that redaction on the grounds of commercial sensitivity should only occur if it is in the public interest.
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A CGD blog. In this episode of Sounds Robotic, we discuss the potential upsides of AI and automation as well as the “lump of labor” fallacy as applied to robots.
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The 1996 welfare reform effort in the US shrank welfare rolls, moved people into work, increased the number of very poor and led to more antisocial behavior among children. For the Economist.
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Me in Slate: Absher is used for a number of government services in Saudi Arabia, but it also allows Saudi men to specify when and where adult women under their “guardianship,” including unmarried daughters and wives, are allowed to travel. It is hosted by both Google and Apple. This is bad.
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