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- Expiring Money https://blogs.worldbank.org/allaboutfinance/expiring-money-part-i 4 comments
- New analysis reveals significant ROI in open source technologies https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/leveraging-open-source-public-institution-new-analysis-reveals-significant-returns-investment-open 37 comments
- Fact checking universal basic income: can we transfer our way out of poverty? http://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/fact-checking-universal-basic-income-can-we-transfer-our-way-out-poverty 2 comments
- Paying Zero for Public Services http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/paying-zero-public-services 10 comments
- March 2023 global poverty update from the World Bank https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/march-2023-global-poverty-update-world-bank-challenge-estimating-poverty-pandemic 2 comments dataisbeautiful
- As a barometer, increasing the definition of global "extreme poverty" from $1.90 to $2.15 is actually a good thing. — "2022 global poverty update from the World Bank" https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/september-2022-global-poverty-update-world-bank-2017-ppps-and-new-data-india 2 comments economics
- Romania is now officially classified as 'high-income' according to the World Bank https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/new-world-bank-country-classifications-income-level-2022-2023 416 comments europe
- Pakistan's water scarcity crisis is a myth https://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/five-myths-about-water-pakistan 4 comments pakistan
- People send roughly 600 billion in remittances globally. Sounds like there’s a need for a low fee solution. https://blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemove/global-remittance-flows-2021-year-recovery-and-surprises 28 comments cryptocurrency
- Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Implications for Remittance flows to Ukraine and Central Asia https://blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemove/russia-ukraine-conflict-implications-remittance-flows-ukraine-and-central-asia 13 comments geopolitics
- From crisis to opportunity: How the Philippines built 500km of bike lanes in less than a year https://blogs.worldbank.org/transport/crisis-opportunity-how-philippines-built-500km-bike-lanes-less-year 4 comments upliftingnews
- Blockchain technology has the potential to transform government, but first we need to build trust https://blogs.worldbank.org/governance/blockchain-technology-has-potential-transform-government-first-we-need-build-trust 11 comments cryptocurrency
- About 97 million more people are living on less than $1.90 a day because of the pandemic, increasing the global poverty rate from 7.8 to 9.1 percent https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/covid-19-leaves-legacy-rising-poverty-and-widening-inequality 48 comments worldnews
- Can Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Help Fight Corruption? https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/can-cryptocurrencies-and-blockchain-help-fight-corruption 13 comments cryptocurrency
- Romania is now considered a high-income country by the World Bank https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/new-world-bank-country-classifications-income-level-2020-2021?cid=dec_tt_data_en_ext 9 comments europe
- Congratulations Romania, which is now officially classified as 'high income' according to the World Bank. https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/new-world-bank-country-classifications-income-level-2020-2021 308 comments europe
- Immediate relief for Pakistan’s pandemic-stricken poor https://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/immediate-relief-pakistans-pandemic-stricken-poor?fbclid=iwar18sjnl-8akgfzsihvjdftumpoaabl9zrnbntcfwgsehtqgcxvmd97uw1m 21 comments worldnews
- Which countries reduced poverty rates the most? World bank Data. https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/which-countries-reduced-poverty-rates-most 10 comments pakistan
- Quality of Open Source Software: how many eyes are enough? http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/quality-open-source-software-how-many-eyes-are-enough 11 comments linux
- What’s keeping Pakistan in the dark? http://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/what-s-keeping-pakistan-dark 4 comments pakistan
- A Pakistani daughter and her destiny https://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/pakistani-daughter-and-her-destiny 3 comments pakistan
- Punjab, Pakistan has just transformed its land record management system. What can we learn? https://blogs.worldbank.org/sustainablecities/punjab-pakistan-has-just-transformed-its-land-record-management-system-what-can-we-learn 16 comments pakistan
- What does Alwyn Young’s paper mean for analysis of experiments? http://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/what-does-alwyn-young-s-paper-mean-analysis-experiments 10 comments statistics
- Chart: South Asia’s Exports Increasing in Value | The Data Blog http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/chart-south-asia-s-exports-increasing-value 3 comments india
- Jobs: The fastest road out of poverty https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/jobs-fastest-road-out-poverty 5 comments worldnews
- For twenty years, a group of satellites has taken pictures of India every night. Researchers at the University of Michigan extracted nightly light readings for 600,000 villages. The resulting 4.4 billion data points hold stories of electrification in rural India. http://blogs.worldbank.org/energy/eyes-sky-help-track-rural-electrification 10 comments india
- Market will by red by eod http://blogs.worldbank.org/files/publicsphere/Johanna/keynes.jpg 35 comments wallstreetbets
- 17 Statistics for World Statistics Day (and Why We Need to Invest in Them) http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/17-statistics-world-statistics-day-and-why-we-need-invest-them 3 comments statistics
- The future of the world’s population in 4 charts http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/future-world-s-population-4-charts 220 comments europe
- The ten richest Africans own as much as the poorest half of the continent http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/ten-richest-africans-own-much-poorest-half-continent 79 comments worldnews
- World Bank: Most immigrants do not come for social benefits, they come to find work and to improve their lives and those of their families. Efforts to better integrate immigrants should thus be seen as an investment rather than a cost. http://blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemove/can-i-get-bill-please 17 comments economy
- World Bank: Most immigrants do not come for social benefits, they come to find work and to improve their lives and those of their families. Efforts to better integrate immigrants should thus be seen as an investment rather than a cost. http://blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemove/can-i-get-bill-please 7 comments business
- “Are You Kidding Me?“ Surprises on my Return Visit to Gujarat After Six Years http://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/are-you-kidding-me-surprises-my-return-visit-gujarat-after-six-years 38 comments india
- China: As my colleagues and I wandered, on–foot, down the center of Chenggong’s empty 8-lane boulevards and dedicated bus lanes, never seeing a single person, we marveled about the fiscal and political conditions that would have to exist to create something like this. http://blogs.worldbank.org/transport/node/526 4 comments worldevents
- "Fed up with requests for bribes and equipped with a zero rupee note, the old lady handed the note to the official. He was stunned." http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/paying-zero-public-services 6 comments india
- Zero denomination note is valuable http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/paying-zero-public-services 37 comments cogsci