Ask the World Bank President
Tomorrow Tuesday Robert Zoellick will be speaking and taking questions about the financial crisis and its effects on the poor, ahead of the G20 summit in London.
March 2009
On mortgages (and II)
Transmission of crisis from home mortgages to US credit freeze and global oil-price hike
On mortgages (I)
Why did the U.S. Housing go bust in 2006-07?
Moving Out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom Up
The World Bank has launched its new study on Poverty “Moving Out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom Up”, which continues the work started with the excellent “Voices of the Poor”, published in 2000.
Graduate Scholarship Program
If you have been admitted to a development-related master’s degree program, are looking for funding and are from a World Bank member country eligible to borrow, the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program might int
DFID on the Future of International Development
UK's Department for International Development (DFID) recently published a background paper for their Conference on the Future of International Development: Eliminating World Poverty. It aims to provoke thought on the emerging challenges faced by developing countries and the rest of the world, and sets out a series of questions to address the priority issues.
Development Podcasts
I find podcasts an interesting addition to Development blogs. We have already mentioned here the Development Drums, and the World Bank has its own series.
Any others out there?
New Estimates of Global Poverty: Video
We already blogged about the World Bank's Updated Poverty Estimates and the reactions they brought.
You can now watch a video of a recent discussion on this topic, at the World Bank.
More Development Blogs: Climate Change, Governance, Microfinance
The authors of the World Bank's upcoming World Development Report 2010 are hosting the blog Development in a Changing Climate, "a forum to get broad-based input on fundamental questions relating to climate change and development".
Paul Collier is blogging
Paul Collier will blog in the recently created Bottom Billion Blog which will be "bringing together the latest news, opinions and case studies from across Africa and other countries of the Bottom Billion". We look forward to this interesting addition to the blogosphere.
Fridays Academy: Urbanization and Growth
During this and upcoming Fridays we will be looking at the relationship between urbanization and growth. These postings are based on a text by Raj Nallari and Indira Iyer.
Urbanization and Growth
Brain Drain from Small Countries and its Growth Implications
A new Policy Research Working Paper published by the World Bank's Development Research Group, by Frédéric Docquier and Maurice Schiff: Measuring Skilled Migration Rates: The Case of Small States
ECLAC's Statistics on Latin America and the Caribbean
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has recently publish the 2008 edition of its Statistical Yearbook, which contains social, economic and environmental data from the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, including a section on Poverty.