Poverty

Full data on new PPPs

There's been much talk in recent months about the revision of the International Comparison Program and the PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) figures derived from it.

Claudia Gabarain|
Poverty, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships

NT2: Not a World Bank hydropower project

A few weeks ago I wrote that “many perceive NT2 to be a World Bank hydropower project. From my perspective, that’s inaccurate in every respect. More on that in a future posting.” Following intense…

William Rex|
Energy, Environment, Poverty, Competitiveness

For the record: The Bank is *not* warning about Thailand's rice export risks

I see there has been some blog chatter about the World Bank's position on Thailand's rice exports. Let me take the chance here to set the record straight: Thailand is a great…

Jim Adams|
Agriculture and Food, Trade, Poverty

Beggar thine own people?

First the good news. The Indian government has agreed to sell the originally-agreed 400, 000 tons of non-basmati rice to the Government of Bangladesh at a price of $430 per ton. On March 30th, the…

Shanta Devarajan|
Poverty, Trade, Urban Development

Active week of reporting on global food prices

Web reporters were busy last week with news of soaring prices for grains and other agricultural commodities.  Economist.com posted an early entry with Food for Thought on March 27.  NYT.com ran…

Michael Figueroa|
Agriculture and Food, Poverty
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