James I Davison
James' primary responsibilities lie in coordinating and editing the content of the East Asia & Pacific on the rise blog. He also helps manage the region's Web sites for the World Bank.
James grew up in Iowa, in America’s heartland, and earned a journalism degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He started his professional career as a newspaper reporter, but quickly moved into the rapidly changing world of online journalism, working as Web editor for the Charleston Gazette in West Virginia. He recently left the hills of the Mountain State for a new life Washington. He loves to travel when he can, enjoys playing tennis and rocks the mic at any karaoke night he can get to.
If you have any ideas for the blog, please contact James here.
Latest Posts:
- New Google feature lets users quickly search World Bank development data
- Innovative ideas to save the planet (and East Asia Pacific region) from climate change
- Submit questions on East Asian and Pacific economy for Nov. 12 online chat
- Growth in China continues to influence East Asia’s economic recovery, two new World Bank reports say
- Interactive climate change map shows what a warmer world could look like
- Online mapping tool gives view of forests in developing countries
- The world’s resources, at a glance
- New visualization tool displays development data with simple, animated graphs
- Vietnam in pictures: The human toll of natural disasters
- A quick look at 60 years of China's development
Health restored? Uncertainty in forecasting Thailand's economic outlook
Philippines: Surviving Tropical Storm Ondoy - Ketsana
'Facebook for farmers' brings microloans to people in rural China

