Development blog: How’s Your Country Score? Kudos to AfDB for Its Data Release
Updated: 2012-01-31 14:48:10
By Todd Moss - I’ve been closely watching the impressive changes at the African Development Bank. (Our 2006 working group report recommendations are here and my 2010 progress scorecard is here.) In particular, I’ve been encouraged by the Bank’s articulation of its comparative advantage in infrastructure and private sector and the shift in its portfolio to reflect this focus. [...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cgdev/globaldevelopment/~4/i7dyZpZbPDM" height="1" width="1"/
A movement-building haiku from NSAC’s grassroots planning session Earlier this week, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) held its semi-annual member meeting near Reisterstown, Maryland. Every winter, NSAC members discuss, debate, and vote on the coalition’s priorities for the year. In the coming year, NSAC will work with Congress and the Administration to: Create jobs Read the Rest...
By Kate McQueston - Total fertility has been decreasing in many African countries—from 5.9 in 2001 to 4.6 in 2009 in Ethiopia and 5.5 in 2001 to 4.9 in 2009 in Senegal, though still high in comparison to many parts of the world (for more data on total fertility trends see here). This decline has come with both health benefits and [...]
By Denizhan Duran - As we posted recently, India had its first polio-free year, despite significantly lagging behind in other vaccinations. The economic losses of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD) to developing countries are tremendous: investing in vaccines in low- and middle-income countries would save 6.4 million children until 2020 – an investment valued at $231 billion. The same is true [...]
By Jenny Ottenhoff - Expectations for a global development focus in President Obama’s State of the Union address were low. Still, more than 130 policy wonks gathered at the Commissary watering hole and eatery in Logan Circle to play CGD State of the Union bingo and many were pleasantly surprised that they could mark off a number of development-related [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Thursday , January 26, 2012 FARM LENDING COMPETITION IS FEROCIOUS Bloomberg News JournalStar.com Bloomberg reports , Farmers are taking advantage of a resurgence in government-chartered credit providers and Federal Reserve efforts to stoke the economy by holding the Fed funds rate near zero . According to Jason Henderson , vice president and Omaha branch executive at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City , We're seeing very aggressive activity by the Farm Credit System and commercial
By Amanda Glassman - This is a joint post with Victoria Fan. Vaccine uptake in several countries is stagnating or even declining (see here and here for example). What explains this poor uptake and coverage? Public health researchers have recently begun to apply the concept of ‘vaccine hesitancy’ and ‘vaccine refusal’, largely focusing on individual knowledge, attitudes, and practices [...]
By Alan Gelb - This is a joint post with Rita Perakis. After many stages of drafting, debates, and consultations, the World Bank´s proposed results-based financing instrument, Program-for-Results is going for approval to the Bank´s Board on January 24. The latest draft of the policy can be found here; we´re pleased to see that Bank staff listened to comments [...]
By Michael Clemens - Washington’s partisan deadlock has drained the hopes of many who seek action on the challenges America faces. But even on one of the most toxic political issues—migration—there is room for hope. One sign of hope for bipartisan cooperation came earlier this week, when the administration added Haiti to the list of countries eligible for H-2 [...]
We distort reality when we omit the health and environmental costs associated with burning fossil fuels from their prices. When governments actually subsidize their use, they take the distortion even further. Worldwide, direct fossil fuel subsidies added up to roughly … 
By chrismolitoris - How does a great think tank idea become a law? Filmmakers Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini set out to document this process. The result: a twelve-part series, How Democracy Works Now, that puts U.S. immigration policy in the limelight but tells a broader story of how people shape U.S. policy and social change. Join us [...]
By Kimberly Ann Elliott - American taxpayers can celebrate the expiration at the end of 2011 of more than $6 billion in subsidies for ethanol and other biofuels, but other absurdities and distortions remain. For example, as Matthew Wald recently reported in the New York Times, fuel producers will pay penalties to the U.S. Treasury of $7 million and up [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Monday , January 16, 2012 SPENDING Please take a moment to watch this video about spending : WATCH ME Posted by Legal : Disclaimer at 2:22 PM Newer Post Older Post Home Visit us on Facebook : at facebook.com kopsa.otte Wondering about the IRS's important due dates Gain access by clicking the link . below Small Business Tax Calendar Blog Archive 2012 13 January 13 QUESTION FROM A MISCLASSIFIED WORKER JUST FOR FUN MY HIGH SCOOL ENGLISH TEACHER WOULD . SPENDING MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY 2012
By Victoria Fan - This is a joint post with Rachel Silverman Yesterday the global health community celebrated a much anticipated anniversary: one year has passed since India’s last reported case of polio. While still tenuous, this achievement is an important milestone for the international effort to attain polio eradication. If India can maintain this progress, then only three [...]
By Victoria Fan - This is a joint post with Robert Marten at the Rockefeller Foundation How do we get to universal health coverage? This was the focus of a panel with William Hsiao, David de Ferranti and Yanzhong Huang at the Council for Foreign Relations in Washington yesterday. Of the many salient points discussed, including defining “universal health coverage”, [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Wednesday , January 4, 2012 NEBRASKA CORN BOARD CELEBRATES The Nebraska Corn Board celebrated the end of 2011 with a victory when Judge Lawrence J . O’Neill struck down California’s low carbon fuel standard . To read more : CLICK HERE Posted by Legal : Disclaimer at 2:12 PM Older Post Home Visit us on Facebook : at facebook.com kopsa.otte Wondering about the IRS's important due dates Gain access by clicking the link . below Small Business Tax Calendar Blog Archive 2012 2 January 2