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At the same time, a growing number of governments were also opening up their data – to be more accountable, and to spur economic activity around the data. Today, the open data entrepreneur has emerged. About 500 companies that use open data in their business have sprung up in the United States alone, and similar businesses are cropping up all over the world, even in countries with limited data — let alone open data.<img class="flipboard-image" alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020im_/http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/files/voices/opendata.JPG" style="float:right; height:150px; width:503px"/><br/><br/> So far, this open data-fueled sector is still small, but it promises to take the delivery of useful information to a new level as it grows. In the United States, businesses are using utilities data to promote energy efficiency, education data to help find the best schools, and health data to allow people to check symptoms and make doctor appointments, to name a few examples. A 2013 study by McKinsey & Co. estimates open data could help generate more than <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/open_data_unlocking_innovation_and_performance_with_liquid_information" rel="nofollow">$3 trillion a year</a> in additional value for the global economy.<br/><br/> But can open data entrepreneurs help tackle global challenges and make a difference in developing countries, including in the poorest and most fragile countries? A recent <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://live.worldbank.org/open-data-revolution" rel="nofollow">World Bank event</a> explored that question, bringing in one of the private sector pioneers in the use of open data, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://www.climate.com/" rel="nofollow">The Climate Corporation</a>, along with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://metabiota.com/" rel="nofollow">Metabiota</a>, a for-profit firm tracking emerging diseases in developing countries, and Joel Gurin, author of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://www.opendatanow.com/book-open-data-now/" rel="nofollow">Open Data Now</a> and the lead on a New York University-based project, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://www.opendata500.com/" rel="nofollow">Open Data 500</a>. </p> </div></div></div><div style="clear:both;padding:5px 0;"><a 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The benchmark MSCI Emerging Market Index gained 0.5%, trimming its quarterly loss to 1.3% in the first quarter of this year. Russia’s Micex stock index rose for a second day, but the gauge is still down 10% this year, heading for its steepest quarterly drop since 2011.</p></div></div></div><div style="clear:both;padding:5px 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/prospects/prospects-daily-turkish-lira-surges-near-three-month-high-against-us-dollar-eurozone-annual" class="readmore">Read more »</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix"> </div> </article> <article class="node node-blog node-promoted node-teaser node-published node-not-sticky author-hanspeter-wyss odd clearfix node-published node-not-sticky author-hanspeter-wyss odd clearfix" id="node-blog-1512--2"> <header> <h2 class="node-title node-title"><a href="/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemove/call-papers-international-symposium-environmental-change-and-migration-washington-dc-28-29-may-2014" title="Call for Papers: International Symposium on Environmental Change and Migration, Washington, D.C., 28-29 May 2014">Call for Papers: International Symposium on Environmental Change and Migration, Washington, D.C., 28-29 May 2014</a></h2> </header> <div class="user-picture"> <a href="/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/team/hanspeter-wyss" title="View user profile."><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020im_/http://blogs.worldbank.org/files/styles/thumbnail/public/pictures/picture-9474-1440614146.jpg" alt="Hanspeter Wyss's picture" title="Hanspeter Wyss's picture"/></a> </div> <footer class="submitted"> <div class="submittedby"> Submitted by <a class="flipboard-author" href="/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/team/hanspeter-wyss" title="View user profile." class="username">Hanspeter Wyss</a> On Mon, 03/31/2014 </div> <div class="submittedby"><div class="servicelinks"><ul class="links inline"><li class="service-links-facebook first"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A//blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemove/call-papers-international-symposium-environmental-change-and-migration-washington-dc-28-29-may-2014%3Fcid%3DEXT_WBBlogSocialShare_D_EXT&t=Call%20for%20Papers%3A%20International%20Symposium%20on%20Environmental%20Change%20and%20Migration%2C%20Washington%2C%20D.C.%2C%2028-29%20May%202014" title="Share on Facebook" class="service-links-facebook" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020im_/http://blogs.worldbank.org/sites/all/modules/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook logo"/></a></li><li class="service-links-twitter-widget"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A//blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemove/call-papers-international-symposium-environmental-change-and-migration-washington-dc-28-29-may-2014%3Fcid%3DEXT_WBBlogSocialShare_D_EXT&count=horizontal&via=WorldBank&text=Call%20for%20Papers%3A%20International%20Symposium%20on%20Environmental%20Change%20and%20Migration%2C%20Washington%2C%20D.C.%2C%2028-29%20May%202014&counturl=http%3A//blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemove/call-papers-international-symposium-environmental-change-and-migration-washington-dc-28-29-may-2014%3Fcid%3DEXT_WBBlogSocialShare_D_EXT" class="twitter-share-button service-links-twitter-widget" title="Tweet This" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="element-invisible">Tweet Widget</span></a></li><li class="service-links-linkedin-share-button"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemove/call-papers-international-symposium-environmental-change-and-migration-washington-dc-28-29-may-2014?cid=EXT_WBBlogSocialShare_D_EXT" title="Share on Linkedin" class="service-links-linkedin-share-button" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="element-invisible">Linkedin Share Button</span></a></li><li class="service-links-google-plus-one"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemove/call-papers-international-symposium-environmental-change-and-migration-washington-dc-28-29-may-2014?cid=EXT_WBBlogSocialShare_D_EXT"></a></li><li class="print_html"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemove/print/1512" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); 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We also hope you will share this call for papers widely with your colleagues.</p> </div></div></div><div style="clear:both;padding:5px 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemove/call-papers-international-symposium-environmental-change-and-migration-washington-dc-28-29-may-2014" class="readmore">Read more »</a></div> </div> <div class="taxo"><div class="item-list"><ul><li class="first">Tags: </li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/migration-and-remittances" class="tags_url">Migration and Remittances</a></li><li class="last"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/environment" class="tags_url">Environment</a></li></ul></div><div style="clear:both;"></div></div> <div class="clearfix"> </div> </article> <article class="node node-blog node-promoted node-teaser node-published node-not-sticky author-harry-a-patrinos even clearfix node-published node-not-sticky author-harry-a-patrinos even clearfix" id="node-blog-727--2"> <header> <h2 class="node-title node-title"><a href="/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/education/scaling-private-sector-education-three-lessons" title="Scaling up the Private Sector in Education: Three Lessons">Scaling up the Private Sector in Education: Three Lessons</a></h2> </header> <div class="user-picture"> <a href="/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/team/harry-patrinos" title="View user profile."><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020im_/http://blogs.worldbank.org/files/styles/thumbnail/public/pictures/403.jpeg" alt="Harry A. 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The occasion prompted us to think about what it would take for the private sector to scale up and really make a difference to children’s lives across the globe. </p> </div></div></div><div style="clear:both;padding:5px 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/education/scaling-private-sector-education-three-lessons" class="readmore">Read more »</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix"> </div> </article> <article class="node node-blog node-promoted node-teaser node-published node-not-sticky author-susmita-dasgupta odd clearfix node-published node-not-sticky author-susmita-dasgupta odd clearfix" id="node-blog-1098--2"> <header> <h2 class="node-title node-title"><a href="/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/river-salinity-coastal-bangladesh-changing-climate" title="River Salinity in Coastal Bangladesh in a Changing Climate">River Salinity in Coastal Bangladesh in a Changing Climate</a></h2> </header> <div class="user-picture"> <a href="/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/team/susmita-dasgupta" title="View user profile."><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020im_/http://blogs.worldbank.org/files/styles/thumbnail/public/pictures/601.jpeg" alt="Susmita Dasgupta's picture" title="Susmita Dasgupta's picture"/></a> </div> <footer class="submitted"> <div class="submittedby"> Submitted by <a class="flipboard-author" href="/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/team/susmita-dasgupta" title="View user profile." class="username">Susmita Dasgupta</a> On Mon, 03/31/2014 </div> <div class="submittedby"><div class="servicelinks"><ul class="links inline"><li class="service-links-facebook first"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A//blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/river-salinity-coastal-bangladesh-changing-climate%3Fcid%3DEXT_WBBlogSocialShare_D_EXT&t=River%20Salinity%20in%20Coastal%20Bangladesh%20in%20a%20Changing%20Climate" title="Share on Facebook" class="service-links-facebook" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020im_/http://blogs.worldbank.org/sites/all/modules/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook logo"/></a></li><li class="service-links-twitter-widget"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A//blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/river-salinity-coastal-bangladesh-changing-climate%3Fcid%3DEXT_WBBlogSocialShare_D_EXT&count=horizontal&via=WorldBank&text=River%20Salinity%20in%20Coastal%20Bangladesh%20in%20a%20Changing%20Climate&counturl=http%3A//blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/river-salinity-coastal-bangladesh-changing-climate%3Fcid%3DEXT_WBBlogSocialShare_D_EXT" class="twitter-share-button service-links-twitter-widget" title="Tweet This" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="element-invisible">Tweet Widget</span></a></li><li class="service-links-linkedin-share-button"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/river-salinity-coastal-bangladesh-changing-climate?cid=EXT_WBBlogSocialShare_D_EXT" title="Share on Linkedin" class="service-links-linkedin-share-button" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="element-invisible">Linkedin Share Button</span></a></li><li class="service-links-google-plus-one"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/river-salinity-coastal-bangladesh-changing-climate?cid=EXT_WBBlogSocialShare_D_EXT"></a></li><li class="print_html"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/print/1098" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); 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height:166px; width:250px"/>With a virtual certainty that sea-level rise (SLR) will continue beyond 2100 even if greenhouse gas emissions were stabilized today, it is essential that we gain understanding of the potential impacts of SLR and begin planning adaptation, especially for countries with major risk of SLR. The urgency of responding to the growing alarm over climate change effects worldwide is hitting headlines this week, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just released its <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://ipcc-wg2.gov/AR5/report/" rel="nofollow">Climate Change 2014</a> report warning that climate change is already having widespread effects on every continent and throughout the world’s oceans.</p> </div></div></div><div style="clear:both;padding:5px 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/river-salinity-coastal-bangladesh-changing-climate" class="readmore">Read more »</a></div> </div> <div class="taxo"><div class="item-list"><ul><li class="first">Tags: </li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/sea-level-rise" class="tags_url">sea level rise</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/climate-change" class="tags_url">Climate Change</a></li><li class="last"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/countries/bangladesh" class="tags_url">Bangladesh</a></li></ul></div><div style="clear:both;"></div></div> <div class="clearfix"> </div> </article> <article class="node node-blog node-promoted node-teaser node-published node-not-sticky author-duncan-green even clearfix node-published node-not-sticky author-duncan-green even clearfix" id="node-blog-6654--2"> <header> <h2 class="node-title node-title"><a href="/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/can-political-economy-approach-explain-aid-donors-reluctance-think-and-work-politically-guest-post" title="Can a Political Economy Approach Explain Aid Donors’ Reluctance to Think and Work Politically? Guest Post from Neil McCulloch">Can a Political Economy Approach Explain Aid Donors’ Reluctance to Think and Work Politically? 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height:179px; width:280px"/>The more enlightened (in my view) aid types have been wagging their fingers for decades, telling their colleagues to adopt more politically literate approaches to their work. Why isn’t everyone convinced? <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://www.ids.ac.uk/person/neil-mcculloch" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Neil McCulloch </a>applies a bit of political economy analysis to the aid business.</em></p> <p> Over the last fifteen years or more, a new approach to development assistance has been gaining ground in policy circles. Broadly entitled the “political economy” approach, it attempts to apply a more political approach to understanding development problems and, importantly, development “solutions”. In particular, a central tenet of the approach is that many development problems are fundamentally political rather than technical and that therefore solutions to these problems are most likely to come from inside a country’s polity than from outside. Perhaps the most famous recent example of this line of thinking is Acemoglu and Robinson’s 2012 book <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://whynationsfail.com/summary/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Why Nations Fail</a>.</p> <p> Acemoglu and Robinson conclude that if each nation’s fate depends primarily on its domestic political struggles, the role for external development assistance is minimal. However, the response of practitioners to this field is to turn this argument on its head i.e. that is, if indeed each nation’s fate depends primarily on its domestic political struggles, development assistance should be trying to influence these struggles in ways that make pro-development outcomes more likely. Yet despite more than a decade analysis, the political economy “approach” is still rarely used by donors in the field. Why? I think there are four reasons:</p> </div></div></div><div style="clear:both;padding:5px 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/can-political-economy-approach-explain-aid-donors-reluctance-think-and-work-politically-guest-post" class="readmore">Read more »</a></div> </div> <div class="taxo"><div class="item-list"><ul><li class="first">Tags: </li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/project-failure" class="tags_url">Project Failure</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/donor-funds" class="tags_url">Donor Funds</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/development-assistance" class="tags_url">Development Assistance</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/domestic-accountability" class="tags_url">Domestic Accountability</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/political-economy-analsyis" class="tags_url">Political Economy Analsyis</a></li><li class="last"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/political-economy" class="tags_url">political economy</a></li></ul></div><div style="clear:both;"></div></div> <div class="clearfix"> </div> </article> <article class="node node-blog node-promoted node-teaser node-published node-not-sticky author-sina-odugbemi odd clearfix node-published node-not-sticky author-sina-odugbemi odd clearfix" id="node-blog-6653--2"> <header> <h2 class="node-title node-title"><a href="/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/quote-week-rahm-emanuel" title="Quote of the Week: Rahm Emanuel">Quote of the Week: Rahm Emanuel</a></h2> </header> <div class="user-picture"> <a href="/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/team/sina-odugbemi" title="View user profile."><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020im_/http://blogs.worldbank.org/files/styles/thumbnail/public/pictures/picture-216-1383856919.jpg" alt="Sina Odugbemi's picture" title="Sina Odugbemi's picture"/></a> </div> <footer class="submitted"> <div class="submittedby"> Submitted by <a class="flipboard-author" href="/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/team/sina-odugbemi" title="View user profile." class="username">Sina Odugbemi</a> On Mon, 03/31/2014 </div> <div class="submittedby"><div class="servicelinks"><ul class="links inline"><li class="service-links-facebook first"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A//blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/quote-week-rahm-emanuel%3Fcid%3DEXT_WBBlogSocialShare_D_EXT&t=Quote%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20Rahm%20Emanuel" title="Share on Facebook" class="service-links-facebook" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020im_/http://blogs.worldbank.org/sites/all/modules/service_links/images/facebook.png" alt="Facebook logo"/></a></li><li class="service-links-twitter-widget"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A//blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/quote-week-rahm-emanuel%3Fcid%3DEXT_WBBlogSocialShare_D_EXT&count=horizontal&via=WorldBank&text=Quote%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20Rahm%20Emanuel&counturl=http%3A//blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/quote-week-rahm-emanuel%3Fcid%3DEXT_WBBlogSocialShare_D_EXT" class="twitter-share-button service-links-twitter-widget" title="Tweet This" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="element-invisible">Tweet Widget</span></a></li><li class="service-links-linkedin-share-button"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/quote-week-rahm-emanuel?cid=EXT_WBBlogSocialShare_D_EXT" title="Share on Linkedin" class="service-links-linkedin-share-button" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="element-invisible">Linkedin Share Button</span></a></li><li class="service-links-google-plus-one"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/quote-week-rahm-emanuel?cid=EXT_WBBlogSocialShare_D_EXT"></a></li><li class="print_html"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/print/6653" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." class="print-page" onclick="window.open(this.href); 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line-height:1.6em; width:540px"/><br/><br/> Preparing a recent project mission to Angola, I came across the country’s latest accomplishment: a gigantic new refinery to consolidate its national oil industry. Looking at that massive structure, I was hit with a sudden thought: if they can pull off such an enormous and complex feat of engineering, what do they need <em>me</em> for?</p> </div></div></div><div style="clear:both;padding:5px 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/nasikiliza/angola-paradox-development-aid-wealthy-country" class="readmore">Read more »</a></div> </div> <div class="taxo"><div class="item-list"><ul><li class="first">Tags: </li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/social-development" class="tags_url">Social Development</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/poverty" class="tags_url">Poverty</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/topics/energy" class="tags_url">Energy</a></li><li><a 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Kerala is uniquely, a most decentralized state, the only one of 17 in India to enact the Right to Public Services and, to open citizen service centers called Akshaya, run under the oversight of <em>panchayats</em>, 3-tier local self-governments, in 14 districts set within a 2 km radius of households. Akshaya was designed in its first phase in 2003 by the Kerala IT Mission to improve e-literacy in underserved areas and, in its second phase to provide a platform for government to citizen services through a public-private partnership. Over 60% of Kerala's 33 million citizens have been served by 2070+ Akshaya centers run by private entrepreneurs who collectively earn 30 million INR a month, creating employment for over 20,000 individuals. (For more details, see <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/governance/files/Akshaya%20An%20Overview.pdf" rel="nofollow">Akshaya Overview</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://www.akshaya.kerala.gov.in/pdf/04_UNDP_Report_5-India.pdf" rel="nofollow">UNDP Report on Akshaya</a>).</p> </div></div></div><div style="clear:both;padding:5px 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/governance/how-kerala-using-internet-localize-delivery-public-services-citizens" class="readmore">Read more »</a></div> </div> <div class="taxo"><div class="item-list"><ul><li class="first">Tags: </li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/digitalgov" class="tags_url">#digitalgov</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151215131020/http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/egovernance" class="tags_url">eGovernance</a></li><li><a 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