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Category: Human Development

Net-zero Emissions and Developing Countries – II

1 August 202219 August 2022
Raul Zambrano
Climate Change, Governance, Human Development, Inequality
As discussed in the previous post,  low-income and most low-middle-income countries play almost no role in methane emissions. Therefore, embarking on related targets and projects will not make a dent on a global scale. Instead, it might end up increasing Read more

Net-zero Emissions and Developing Countries – I

20 July 202214 August 2022
Raul Zambrano
Climate Change, Governance, Human Development, Inequality
If Climate Change rings to many of us as an almost insurmountable global challenge, then net-zero has recently emerged as its apparent universal solution. The coin has finally been imprinted with two clearly defined sides, in constant and inseparable opposition. Read more

Towards a Public Internet?

10 July 202230 July 2022
Raul Zambrano
Governance, Human Development, ICTD
Memory insists on telling me every so often that the first time  I ever used the Internet was at the tail end of the 1980s. A couple of years earlier, the college where I was struggling to finish my Ph.D. Read more

Digital Technologies and Sustainable Development

1 July 202217 July 2022
Raul Zambrano
Climate Change, Economics, Governance, Human Development, ICTD, Innovation
1. Overall context Much water has already gone under the bridge on this topic. Yet the flow shows no signs of coming to a halt soon. In the early days of the so-called “Internet revolution,” only a few were connecting Read more

Financial Inclusion and Democratizing Finance – III

20 June 20224 July 2022
Raul Zambrano
Blockchain, Economics, Human Development, ICTD
Show me the money The impact of initiatives such as Grameen Bank (Village phone included) and M-Pesa is still under discussion. From a poverty reduction perspective, the effect has been much more limited. Many countries in the Global South have Read more

Financial Inclusion and Democratizing Finance – II

10 June 202219 June 2022
Raul Zambrano
Blockchain, Economics, Human Development, ICTD, Innovation
Where are the banks? It seems paradoxical that the mainstream history of micro-finance/financial inclusion does not consider banks.  After all, banks are supposed to “bank the unbanked.”  So banks are not only missing from such a narrative.  They are also Read more

Financial Inclusion and Democratizing Finance – I

30 May 202219 July 2022
Raul Zambrano
Blockchain, Economics, Human Development, ICTD, Social Innovation
From Noise to Signal A couple of weeks ago, El Salvador’s CryptoPopulist President shared on social media news about an international “Bitcoin” meeting his country was hosting starting May 16.  He also listed the names of the 44 entities participating Read more

The Environment and “Socialist” States

1 May 202211 May 2022
Raul Zambrano
Climate Change, Economics, Governance, Human Development, Inequality
Thirty-six years after it first broke the news for the wrong reasons, Chernobyl is back in the headlines thanks to the horrible and absurd Russian invasion. Sixteen months before the well-known Soviet nuclear meltdown of 1986, a plant located in Read more

ICTs and Development Theories – II

15 April 202227 April 2022
Raul Zambrano
Economics, Governance, Human Development, ICTD
Linking ICTs to development External researchers and experts poking for the first time into ICTD might assume that the field has, 30 years after its birth, a cohesive theory on how ICTs impact development. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Read more

ICTs and Development Theories – I

1 April 202227 April 2022
Raul Zambrano
Economics, Governance, Human Development, ICTD
ICTD overview The field of ICTD first saw the light over 30 years ago1 Selected references are provided at the end of the 2nd part of this post. Its overall scope is ambitious as it covers several sectors and thematic Read more

State Capacity and Digital Technologies – I

1 March 202222 March 2022
Raul Zambrano
Economics, Governance, Human Development
To the Moon and Back It was my elder sister’s 25th birthday when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. We watched the unprecedented event on B&W TV  – our grandma openly expressing total skepticism. We then went out for a Read more

Hacking Public Policy Making with AI

15 February 20221 March 2022
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, e-governance, Human Development
Modern Evidence-based Policy Making (EBPC) has been around for 25 years, imported into the mainstream from the health sector and its success with randomized controlled trials. The latter has now spread to many other sectors and research areas. A few Read more

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