November 2009
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The most recent episode of the pop science podcast...
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“The key to success in academia is coming up with a big idea—a paradigm shift—and...”
– Anne-Marie Slaughter, answering a question on what her work in government has taught her about the differences between government and academia.
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World Bank data in Google
Today Google started including 17 World Bank world development indicators in its standard search results. Relevant search queries, like one above, not only present the World Bank data, but also present graphs of the data.
This seems to simply be the result of the World Bank making their data available through a public API, and Google being smart enough to take advantage of it.
You can read a...
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The Zedillo Report
Two days ago I attended the Washington, DC launch of the World Bank’s report on internal governance, headed by former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo. You can download the report here.
The executive summary does a good job overviewing the report and is quite readable, so I’ll only briefly mention a few of the key recommendations:
The World Bank Group’s Board should shrink...