What drove poverty changes in Latin America & the Caribbean over the last decade? documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0... Employment and earnings growth: 37 percent Public transfers: 23 percent (Data from 13 countries)

"Fixing the Earth by throwing lots of stuff into the sky is maybe not our best-ever idea, tbh" - @thecontinent.org 😂😂😂😂

ANALYSIS: Nine key factors that may influence 2025 Anambra governorship poll https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/833259-analysis-nine-key-factors-that-may-influence-2025-anambra-governorship-poll.html?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Gabriel Jesus back in full training, is it?

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

Pirogues have come to be associated with dangerous migrant crossings from the West African coast in recent years. But they are so much more than that. The Lebou people have built a full maritime culture around pirogues over decades as the local vehicle of choice on the Atlantic Ocean.

"What is happening in Nigeria is not a Christian genocide. It is worse than that Breakdown in justice and good governance stokes violence within all communities where trust has been lost" www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...

"The future of A.I. will not be decided by smarter algorithms or faster chips. It will depend on who controls the data — and whose values and interests guide the machines. If we want A.I. that serves the public, the public must decide what it serves."

A century of progress in access to primary education

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces killed hundreds of patients and staff inside a hospital in El Fasher, according to the World Health Organization and the Sudan Doctors Network. “We’re not looking at small numbers, we’re looking at dozens and hundreds and, eventually, there will be thousands.”

👀👀👀 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...

“I think they are a profoundly antisocial technology that should be rejected in every way possible,” said Gilliard. “Their very existence is toxic to the social fabric.” www.theverge.com/tech/807834/...

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

"how can companies achieve such extraordinary profitability within an environment of stagnation?" www.1914reader.com/p/food-the-t...

"how can companies achieve such extraordinary profitability within an environment of stagnation?" F.O.O.D: The terrible twins of palm oil. open.substack.com/pub/1914read...

There is a strong positive association between equality and development over the long run — that's what this new study based on our historical series available on wid.world is clearly showing. Key findings in thread 🧵(1/9)👇

Okay #EconSky, if you do any kind of spatial analysis, it's a good time to be alive ☞ A new, open-access global spatial database combining 73 harmonized datasets on the world population, its distribution in space, and its characteristics, 2015–2023: doi.org/10.12688/ver...

Only way out of this is national development strategies. African policymakers should feel empowered to pursue pro-growth national development strategies. Don’t settle for marginal projects, regardless of who’s hawking them.

How America Got Hooked on Ultraprocessed Foods www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

On the crisis in academic publishing www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

Lessons from My Travels in Guatemala: Nutrition in the 1st 1000 days of life is critical. With a little education & access to nutritious food, mothers in the developing world can raise children who, instead of being “stunted,” become adults fully capable of contributing to their society’s economy.

Expanding irrigation infrastructure in Senegal led to significant and sustained increases in cultivation rates and reduced sensitivity to temperature shocks. Read today's article to learn more:

When F.O.O.D meets the dough boys. open.substack.com/pub/1914read...

Social media users adopt the toxic behaviors of ingroup members An analysis of 7 million tweets from over 700,000 accounts finds that exposures to toxic behavior by ingroup members is the primary driver of contagious toxicity online academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

Mining... Eish......

Stolen Louvre Jewelry Worth Over $100 Million, Paris Prosecutor Says www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/w...

Quantifying how slavery shaped the antebellum US economy, showing the coercion, expropriation, and misallocation of enslaved labor had large welfare and economic impacts, from Treb Allen, Winston Chen, and Suresh Naidu www.nber.org/papers/w34356

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

Once you lock them in, the political economy of protectionism will want to keep them in place. As many African economies have found out the hard way. youtu.be/J1_z-obLdrI...

The Hidden Cost of South Sudan's Oil Boom www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

From The Economist's Espresso.

Timely post from Biniam Bedasso - as UK aid pivots “from grants to expertise”, here's what 900 African civil servants had to say about all those experts www.cgdev.org/blog/rethink...

The war against 'false news' is not 'new', but has been a concern of international organisations for over 100 years. The ever captivating Roland Burke launches a new Guardian column, Past/Present, sponsored by the @austhistassoc.bsky.social.

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt #EconSky

Price matters .. battery prices and additions of GW of electricity battery capacity A key issue to help Africa experience the greenest industrial revolution ever

Foreign Aid Is Mostly Gone. It’s Being Replaced With Something Better. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

"When it comes down to it, the only yardstick that a majority of Nigerians will use to appraise the administration is the personal, as no one pays bills with GDP and related figures." www.thisdaylive.com/2025/10/12/m...

Science has always been an international endeavour, but the share of top researchers who are also immigrants is higher than ever