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Round up of links and newsworthy research

Global Voices Online collects and disseminates blog postings from voices outside of the US and Western Europe.

The Undercover Economist gives us a nice lesson in economics.

A new paper from the Yale Economic Growth Center develops a more expansive measure of human development than does the Human Development Indicator (which is limited to education, health and income) and explores country patterns.

The World Bank’s Africa Development Indicators (ADI 2007) launched yesterday. Two interesting quotes on the report from the World Bank’s Poverty and Growth blog: “Over the past decade, Africa has recorded an average growth rate of 5.4 percent which is at par with the rest of the world,” and “growth volatility is five times higher in SSA than that observed in low and middle income countries.”

From a new paper by my CGD colleagues Stewart Patrick and Kaysie Brown, the Pentagon now accounts for over 20 percent of U.S. official development assistance.

22 percent of Canadians are on Facebook, as are 18 percent of Norwegians and 1.25% of South Africans? This analysis from robwebb2k (and his table below). These numbers seem absurdly high.

One Response

  1. I agree that some of those numbers seem quite high. I wonder, however, if the analysis takes into account the fact that users can join more than one country network. Many US university students, for example, choose to join the country network for the country in which they study abroad.

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