Global Development
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Thread: Who is Muhammad Yunus? 1. The Pioneer of Microfinance Muhammad Yunus, hailed as the "Banker to the Poor," founded Grameen Bank in 1983, revolutionizing the concept of micr...
While I love to see when India succeeds, a healthy degree of skepticism is warranted on these numbers. A. Mody has been sounding the alarm on the widening gulf between politicized...
Offshore banking was never merely about the evolution of empire, integration of criminal networks, and covert action, no? Seems like postwar, it is an essential means for the US to...
The two presidents jointly unveiled the official start of operation of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway and witnessed the signing of bilateral cooperation documents on establ...
#Soros Shuts Up Shop In #Africa 🌍 The billionaire donor's fund officers are closing around the world, #Bloomberg reports. The $25 billion global network of NGOS is preparing to cut...
1. Dubbed “Project of the Century”, Belt & Road Initiative (BRI)/One Belt One Road (OBOR), the brainchild of Chinese President Xi Jinping. It is an ambitious economic development...
There’s an idea going around that the U.S. immigration system should be geared towards attracting the best and brightest from around the world. As a liberal and a global citizen,...
I won't go as far as saying that the "West does not want an industrialized Africa". For Europeans, it makes no difference to them, whether Africa is industrialized or not - Europe...
The most industrialized nations of the world are those with mfg value-added above roughly $10,000 per working age adult. These are (1) Germany, (2) Japan, (3) South Korea, and (4)...
@Jikkyleaks @Sander_vdLinden BMJ wrote about this... in 2019. https://t.co/4gCcxKqleB https://t.co/y0Rv7m2Jop
A #GPT4 thread Prompt: How can surgeons collaborate to improve access to safe surgery in low and middle income countries? #SoMe4Surgery #GlobalSurgery https://t.co/XWmeV7K7dq
@zhao_dashuai China should not be a net importer. It should continuously run current account surpluses and capital account deficits as it gets richer and invests in the Global Sout...
This is just an incredible graph. India is making absolutely amazing strides against poverty. (ht @scienceisstrat1) https://t.co/gq5AozJEMW
Re: 884 applicants already I am writing to solicit your support to help open the door to a brighter future for students from developing countries. https://t.co/uTBalku52W
Bill Gates has spent $6 BILLION on influencing agriculture globally, with a key focus of influence in Africa… HERE'S THE REAL REASON WHY🧵 https://t.co/QXGjsAWQCs
Privileged to deliver the 33rd Lecture of the Institute Lecture Series at @IIM_Calcutta on India and the World. 📹: https://t.co/YqGC1yGFIc Made the following points: https://t.c...
🚨At least ⅔ ‼️ of the world’s youth do not reach even basic skill levels That’s the bottom line of our new paper: “Global Universal Basic Skills: Current Deficits and Implication...
Global Hunger Index (GHI) has placed India at 107 out of 122 countries. GOI raised concerns on the flawed methodology. GHI is released by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe. So...
There is no first world and third world anymore. There is the ascending world, and then there is the descending world. And this is the descending world. https://t.co/zV0UuyhlMY
What happens when philanthropy is vilified rather than praised? The consequence is that someone like Zuck gets less flack for investing in a new biotech than for endowing a hospit...
Remarkable that despite decades of Foreign Aid money put into education systems, in many countries most 10-year-olds are illiterate. World Bank measures of illiteracy (euphemistic...
The 5 global winners of the @_GenUnlimited #YouthChallenge 2018/19 are in Cairo, Egypt this week for an incubation workshop to further develop their creative new solutions for educ...
