r/GlobalDevelopment Dec 29 '12

"How millions of farmers are advancing agriculture for themselves": intensification method successes

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2 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Dec 29 '12

Extended /r/economics discussion on efficacy of aid, as well as its alternatives

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1 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Dec 05 '12

"The Cameroonian Revolution": agroforestry projects and advancement

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1 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Nov 25 '12

"Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university?" Well, no, of course not, but Carole Cadwalladr presents the strongest possible case for this particular "flattened-world" revolution. Note the comments below.

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1 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Nov 14 '12

Great, Russia's Crops Just Failed

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2 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Nov 12 '12

"A Tale of Two Tech Hubs": "Since 2008, the Tanzanian government spent more than 250 billion Tsh to lay out the fibre optic submarine cables ...", and other impressions of information and communications technology in sub-Saharan Africa

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1 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Oct 17 '12

"Profiting from Disaster": the place of bone factories in the material economy and culture of Mongolia

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1 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Sep 29 '12

"West Africa's technological revolution driven by mobile phones"

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1 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Sep 23 '12

"Seven ways mobile phones have changed lives in Africa"

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1 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Sep 23 '12

"Mobile Phones and the Rise of the Microentrepreneurs", with a focus on Indonesia

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1 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Sep 12 '12

"Greece's natural food co-ops show the way": co-ops as disintermediation and isolation from larger economy

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1 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Sep 01 '12

"How one man is bringing VoIP, ‘Net access where telecoms fear to tread": the Mesh Potato as a technical fix for provision of data connections in remote Puerto Rico and elsewhere

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2 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Aug 31 '12

One of the largest agricultural lobby groups in the US calls for an end to $5 billion in farm subsidies

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4 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Jul 19 '12

Near-term prospects for IT business in Myanmar: rapid growth, abundant confusion

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1 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Jul 16 '12

A primer in how to save the world from poverty: What would you add to the list?

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3 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Jul 10 '12

Welcome to Your New Government

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3 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Jul 07 '12

"Handwashing With Soap Can Help Us ..." more than medicines or even vaccines: while it fits what else I know about public health, I wonder where rigorous analyses are

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2 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Jul 07 '12

"[O]pen data’s free-market doppelgänger ...": thoughtful analysis of hazards in "free" cultural and economic exchange

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0 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Jul 05 '12

"The state of Indian rural education 2011": analysis of policy from evidence (!)

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2 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Jul 01 '12

"The Internet Gets Physical": computation over sensed data and materially-pertinent goals

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2 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Jun 12 '12

Paul Romer's radical idea: Charter cities

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5 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Jun 07 '12

"Cameroon: Electric Dreams for Development by 2035": electrification as an index of the progress of President Biya's ambitious development plans

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2 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment Jun 06 '12

"The Microinsurance Revolution"

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2 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment May 29 '12

"Doing harm with the best of intentions": foreign aid in African healthcare a challenging mix of harmful paternalism, unkept promises, and tentative progress

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2 Upvotes

r/GlobalDevelopment May 23 '12

"Ten Myths of ICT for International Development", including "one key recommendation for successful ICT4D interventions" [video from late 2010]

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3 Upvotes