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A blog to promote dialog on development in South Asia

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This blog is maintained by the South Asia Region of the World Bank Group. Its goal is to exchange ideas on how to end poverty in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

November 2008

Watch the End of Poverty

Submitted by Joe Qian on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 16:00

Hans Rosling demonstrates how developing countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He shows us the next generation of his Trendalyzer software -- which analyzes and displays data in amazingly accessible ways, allowing people to see patterns previously hidden behind mountains of stats.

The Education of a Patient Capitalist

Submitted by Joe Qian on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 15:57

Jacqueline Novogratz is pioneering new ways of tackling poverty. In her view, traditional charity rarely delivers lasting results. Her solution, outlined here through a series of revealing personal stories, is "patient capital": support for "bottom of the pyramid" businesses which the commercial market alone couldn't provide.

The Power of Mobile Phones to End Poverty

Submitted by Joe Qian on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 15:50

Partnering with microcredit pioneer GrameenBank, in 1997 Quadir established GrameenPhone, a wireless operator now offering phone services to 80 million rural Bangladeshi. He explains the power of phones as a tool of bottom-up development.