Friday links
Something different
Friday links
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?
Fantasy PSD
Is it the effect of the increasingly globalised football (soccer) industry? Or simply the guilty pleasure of winning prizes for daydreaming?
Friday links
Making the case for microsavings
Editor's Note: Jeanette Thomas is a Communications Manager at CGAP.
Happy peasants or frustrated achievers?
Is happiness an obstacle to economic progress? Economist Carol Graham asks the question:
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.
Goodbye Mongolia...and IFC
The day has finally come—my last day at IFC, after nearly 14 years.
Men 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 months ago to present his vision of a Civic Commons, under the tagline of “sharing technologies for the public good”. Here is how Civic Commons’ recently launched website summarises the objectives of the initiative:
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).
Great expectations, and even greater bellies
This is my third summer in Ulaanbaatar.
End-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:
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 throughout my career.
Friday links
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 belongs to the BRICs.)
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 you guess which country gets to raise the 'Bananas' flag?