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Jenny Aker On Mobile Phones And Economic Development In Africa

Staff Writer | CDDRL News | November 9, 2009

Jenny Aker an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, provided an overview of the welfare impacts of mobile technologies and how current research is testing our assumptions about the benefits of mobile phones for individuals in developing countries. Read More »

Lancet/Oslo Commission: The Political Origins Of Health Inequity

Ole Petter Ottersen, et al. | Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) | February 11, 2014

Despite large gains in health over the past few decades, the distribution of health risks worldwide remains extremely and unacceptably uneven. Although the health sector has a crucial role in addressing health inequalities, its efforts often come into conflict with powerful global actors in pursuit of other interests such as protection of national security, safeguarding of sovereignty, or economic goals. Read More »

Mobile Phones And Economic Development In Africa

Jenny C. Aker and Isaac M. Mbiti | Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) | June 1, 2010

Sub-Saharan Africa has some of the lowest levels of infrastructure investment in the world. [...] Yet access to and use of mobile telephony in sub-Saharan Africa has increased dramatically over the past decade. Read More »

No More Executive Bonuses!

Henry Mintzberg | Wall Street Journal | November 30, 2009

These days, it seems, there is no shortage of recommendations for fixing the way bonuses are paid to executives at big public companies. Well, I have my own recommendation: Scrap the whole thing. Read More »

One Year After SCOTUS, Health Law Is Even More Complex

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | July 1, 2013

It's been a year since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld most of Affordable Care Act, and by now the law’s critics and opponents can probably rest assured that the individual mandate set no precedent for the federal government to require American citizens to eat broccoli. Read More »

Open Source Hardware On The High Street

Andrew Back | DesignSpark | January 14, 2013

The open source hardware movement continues to grow at a rapid pace but could it ever give birth to mass market products that are seen on the high street? Read More »

Sneak Peek: What The White House Is Thinking About Antibiotic Resistance

Maryn McKenna | Wired | April 4, 2014

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST for short) is preparing a major report on the problem of antibiotic resistance. The report won’t be published for a few months, but today PCAST held one of its periodic meetings, and aired what it thinks the most important issues are going to be. [...] Read More »

Startup Strategy: HIT And Device Entrepreneurs Name 2014 Risks And Opportunities

Staff Writer | MedCity News | February 12, 2014

While healthcare reform is well underway, a true shift in care delivery and economics appears to be more of a looming threat than a proven reality. The question remains: How do you manage and grow a successful business in the dynamic environment of today while positioning for the future? Read More »

Study Of Men’s Falling Income Cites Single Parents

Binyamin Appelbaum | New York Times | March 20, 2013

The decline of two-parent households may be a significant reason for the divergent fortunes of male workers, whose earnings generally declined in recent decades, and female workers, whose earnings generally increased, a prominent labor economist argues in a new survey of existing research. Read More »

The Long Con - "Charitable" Hospitals Make Multimillionaires Out Of Their CEOs

Roy M. Poses | Health Care Renewal | August 23, 2013

The CEOs of ostensibly charitable hospitals founded to serve the poor continue to become rich. The latest reminders are in two articles from Maryland, from DelMarVaNow, and from the Baltimore Sun,.and one from the Boston Globe. Read More »

The Rich Get Richer Through The Recovery

Annie Lowrey | New York Times | September 10, 2013

The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the highest level recorded since the government began collecting the relevant data a century ago, according to an updated study by the prominent economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty. Read More »

The Seesaw of Power

Serge Schmemann | New York Times | June 23, 2012

I think the West missed a trick, because it adopted — certainly in Africa and many of the poor emerging economies — an attitude of “do what we say and not what we do.” The whole idea of incentives, which has been the backbone of the success in Western economies, is not something the West transplanted into places like Africa. The approach to economic development in Africa has been focused on aid; it’s been focused on what someone called “learned helplessness.”
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To Be Young, Unemployed, or Working for Free in the USA

David Ruccio | Real-World Economics Review Blog | May 9, 2012

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the official unemployment rate among young people (ages 16 to 19 years) is 24.9 percent, up from 23 percent a year ago. And, according to the Associated Press, the weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and knowledge.
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Twisted Pleasures Of Open Source 'Sprint' Worth My Weekend

Danny O'Brien | The Irish Times | August 23, 2012

In the case of Twisted, it also drives some of the tools underlying commercial and government institutions like Lucasfilm, Nasa, TweetDeck, and Canonical.

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U.S. Ranks 23rd For Women’s Equality, Falling Behind Nicaragua, Cuba, and Burundi

Bryce Covert | Think Progress | October 25, 2013

In the 2013 World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report, which measures women’s economic, political, educational, and health equality, the United States ranks at number 23 out of 136 countries around the world. The country falls behind many Nordic countries as well as Nicaragua, Cuba, and Burundi, among others.

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