A short video shared via Twitter highlights Bill Gates' recent India trip. He covers the rotavirus, agricultural innovation, and a joint TV appearance with Bollywood star and development activist Aamir Khan.
World Bank researcher Damien de Walque's recent results from a Randomized Control Trial in Lesotho of a lottery scheme to reduce risky sexual behavior was presented at an AIDS conference in Malaysia and covered in Bloomberg.
The World Bank updated its classification of the world's economies based on estimates of gross national income (GNI). Among other things, Russia moves to high income status; also, Chile, Lithuania, and Uruguay become high-income for the first time.
"Japan ahead of China in forging Africa Partnerships" is the title of a piece in The Global Times.
Martin Ravallion, now the Edmond D. Villani Chair of Economics at Georgetown and a non-visiting fellow at CGD, has a post titled 'Cutting Development Assistance after a Coup may be Bad Response.'
In 'Prospects for future economic growth,' Dani Rodrik draws from a new paper and describes a distinction between what he identifies as two key growth drivers.
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