1. Why Africa loves Nokia.

2. A case for faith-based development.

3. Josh Goldstein on mapping violence with Google Earth: “the obvious pushback to a project like this is that ‘at the end of the day you’re not saving lives.’”

4. Charles Tilly dies at 78, comments from Tyler Cowen.

5. The FP blog has a good Friday afternoon: the end of Musharraf, the funny thing about the Castro family tree, Kosovo’s man in the Bronx, and how Google thinks.

6. The problem with fertilizer.

7. The IMF boosts developing nations’ say

8. CGD announces a new set of RSS feeds on a number of development issues, including a new master feed.

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