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	<title>Global Development: Views from the Center » Jenny Aker</title>
	
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	<description>Global Development: Views from the Center features posts from Nancy Birdsall and her colleagues at the Center for Global Development about innovative, practical policy responses to poverty and inequality in an ever-more globalized world.</description>
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		<title>Why Have Mobile Phones Succeeded Where Other Technologies Have Not?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/11/why-have-mobile-phones-succeeded-where-other-technologies-have-not.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Aker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Aker - A few weeks ago, I was sitting on a panel for a conference on Information and Communications Technology and Development.  The debate on my panel was a lively one, and came down to one issue:  Can information technology (by itself) lead to development?  Obviously there has been a lot of buzz about this topic &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mozambican Riots: Food for Thought</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/09/the-mozambican-riots-food-for-thought.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Aker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food Crisis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=4409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Aker - This is a joint posting with Rebecca Schutte. Last week’s deadly unrest in Mozambique became a global news story, as clashes between security forces and people protesting rising food prices in the capital, Maputo, left at least ten people dead and more than 400 people injured.  CGD Non-Resident Fellow Chris Blattman explained his skepticism about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C U L8ter?  Using Mobile Phones as a Literacy Tool in Niger</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/09/c-u-l8ter-using-mobile-phones-as-a-literacy-tool-in-niger.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Aker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Aker - RELATED WORKING PAPER: ABC, 123: The Impact of a Mobile Phone Literacy Program on Educational Outcomes This is a joint posting with Kristy Bohling. I recently received a text message from my friend Karim in Niger, asking “Keski ce passe?” (What’s happening?).  Those of you who know French might notice his text is an abbreviation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facing Hunger in Niger</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/06/facing-hunger-in-niger.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Aker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food Aid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Aker - Over 7 million people are expected to face severe food shortages in Niger over the next few months.  When I was there in early June, many villages in the far east of the country had not yet received rain, there had been an exodus of young men to Nigeria, Benin and Libya, and women were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Text me Money Now? Using Mobile Phones for Cash Transfers</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/05/can-you-text-me-money-now-using-mobile-phones-for-cash-transfers.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 15:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Aker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Migration and Labor Mobility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=4049</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Aker - In the wake of the Haitian earthquake, major wireless carriers used text messages to speed up and simplify donation processes, allowing thousands of people to send financial support via their mobile phones.  Within two days, USD$2 million was raised for Haitian relief efforts.  Will mobile phones serve as a new paradigm for providing aid in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (Short Time Passing)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/04/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone-short-time-passing.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Aker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Aker - This is a joint post with Christopher Ksoll. Since the volcanic eruption in Iceland on April 14th, we have been inundated with stories about flight disruptions.  Demi Moore can no longer travel to the premiere of her new movie in London.  The opening of “Iron Man 2” has been moved from Europe to Los Angeles.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despite Coup in Niger, Wrong Time to Yank Humanitarian Assistance</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/02/despite-coup-in-niger-wrong-time-to-yank-humanitarian-assistance.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Aker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Aker - photo by edoug / CC BY-SA 2.0 On February 18, 2010, gunfire broke out around the Presidential Palace in Niger.  According to most recent reports, President Mamadou Tandja and his cabinet are in captivity, and a military group, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy (SCRD), has seized power to “make Niger an example [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Microfinance?  Why MFIs Shouldn’t Be Freaking Out (Yet)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/11/the-myth-of-microfinance-why-mfis-shouldn%e2%80%99t-be-freaking-out-yet.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Aker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Aker - This is a joint post with Michael Clemens. The headline in the Boston Globe on September 20, 2009 was catchy: &#8220;Billions of dollars and a Nobel Prize later, it looks like &#8216;microlending&#8217; doesn’t actually do much to fight poverty.&#8221; The article referred to the findings of two recent impact evaluations in microfinance in India and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hip Hip…Hooray? Cautious Optimism for G8 Agricultural Commitments</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/07/hip-hiphooray-cautious-optimism-for-g8-agricultural-commitments.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/07/hip-hiphooray-cautious-optimism-for-g8-agricultural-commitments.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Aker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food & Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Aid]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=1564</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Aker - Last week, the leaders of the Group of 8 pledged 20 billion dollars in agricultural aid, with the purpose of boosting agricultural productivity &#8212; especially in Africa. But will $20 billion over a three-year period help to feed many of the 1.02 billion people on earth who suffer from food insecurity? For the past thirty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tapping Mobile Phone Networks to Monitor Pandemic Flu in Developing Countries</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/05/tapping-mobile-phone-networks-to-monitor-pandemic-flu-in-developing-countries.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/05/tapping-mobile-phone-networks-to-monitor-pandemic-flu-in-developing-countries.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 22:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Aker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Aker - Mead Over recently wrote compellingly about the importance of collective action to strengthen surveillance of the swine flu and other contagious diseases. A major issue, of course, is the cost of such surveillance measures, the timely receipt of data on potential infections, and the accuracy (and completeness) of such information. Mobile phones may be part [...]]]></description>
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