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 Article34 million jobs lost
The most recent ILO estimates—from January of this year—put global job losses between 2007 and 2009 at 34 million. This, of course, is on top of the many people who continue to have a job but have seen...
View ArticleInclusive is the new black
One hears less about the base of the pyramid these days. Instead, "inclusive" remains the clear buzzword of choice for now. The recent UN Millennium Development Goals Summit generated a side workshop...
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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Doing Business 2011: 8 years, 11 indicators, and a new 5-year cumulative score
The new Doing Business 2011: Making a Difference for Entrepreneurs report has just
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1. Take a tax diet, the Brazilian way.2. The Economist's take on Doing Business 2011.
View ArticleLooking for a place to invest?
Survey data suggest it might not be that easy for manufacturing multinationals to find information on suitable industrial investment sites in many countries around the world.
View ArticleRegime Type: Do private firms have a preference?
One can reasonably expect that frequent and unpredictable changes in economic policy might adversely affect investment by the private sector and the overall growth of the economy. For all practical...
View ArticleQuantifying informality in Latin America
In a series of earlier posts, I discussed a number of findings about informal (unregistered) firms in 6 African countries, including Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Cape Verde, Cameroon, Madagascar and...
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In Latin America & the Caribbean, Market Efficiency Rules!
In SpanishBroadly taken, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) weathered the turmoil of the global economic crisis fairly well. After the region’s GDP growth slowed notably in 2008, and fell to...
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Is labor productivity lagging despite job growth in Latin America & the...
As David Francis pointed out in a recent blog, the private sector in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region showed some resilience to the heavy distortions of the recent financial crisis. Latin...
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