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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 Don’t They Want What We Know They Need?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/05/why-dont-they-want-what-we-know-they-need.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Kenny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Charles Kenny - I’ve been blogging a little about technology adoption of late.  It’s a subject close to my heart: my last book was pretty much all about how new technologies and the spread of ideas were behind much of the global progress we’ve seen in the quality of life over the last fifty years. But there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Clean on Cookstoves</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/coming-clean-on-cookstoves.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Kenny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rural Development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Charles Kenny - The Washington Post on Monday highlighted the latest results from a randomized study of a development intervention by the folks at MIT.   This time, the subject of the study was clean cookstoves.  As the Post noted, that’s timely because Hillary Clinton has been a strong advocate, backing the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves and pledging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fingerprints, the Next Big Thing in Banking</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/07/fingerprints-the-next-big-thing-in-banking.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/07/fingerprints-the-next-big-thing-in-banking.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Gelb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biometrics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=6502</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alan Gelb - This is a joint post with Caroline Decker. With the expansion of cell coverage and mobile banking, millions of poor and rural people can now access financial services. But as financial institutions reach new populations, it is becoming clear that there are other issues keeping people from formal banking, such as the need for identification.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cash at Your Fingertips: Biometric Technology for Transfer Systems</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/06/cash-at-your-fingertips-biometric-technology-for-transfer-systems.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/06/cash-at-your-fingertips-biometric-technology-for-transfer-systems.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Gelb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biometrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cash transfers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=6175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alan Gelb - This is a joint post with Caroline Decker Last week CGD published our working paper on the use of fingerprint and iris scans for cash transfers. As we continue to look into this topic, we are even more convinced of the potential this technology has for transfer systems, particularly those in resource-rich countries. Cash transfers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy and Development: The Spread of Biometric Voter Rolls</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/06/democracy-and-development-the-spread-of-biometric-voter-rolls.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/06/democracy-and-development-the-spread-of-biometric-voter-rolls.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Gelb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance/Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Gelb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biometrics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=6094</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alan Gelb - This post is joint with Caroline Decker The application of biometrics to promote development and democratization is proceeding rapidly in the developing world—and largely below the radar of the media and development experts in high-income countries. Monitoring press releases on biometrics with the help of a news Google alert, I’ve been struck by the astonishing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar-Powered Biometrics Delivering Healthcare in Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/04/solar-powered-biometrics-delivering-healthcare-in-nigeria.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/04/solar-powered-biometrics-delivering-healthcare-in-nigeria.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Gelb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biometrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solar Power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=5604</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alan Gelb - In the developing world, lack of identification often hampers the flow of benefits from governments to their citizens. As I wrote in a previous post, biometric identification could solve this problem. In Nigeria, some government agencies are using this new technology to pay pensions and government salaries.  One pilot program claims to have saved $80 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fingerprint Haiti Now: Biometrics in Haiti, One Year Later</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/12/fingerprint-haiti-now-biometrics-in-haiti-one-year-later.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/12/fingerprint-haiti-now-biometrics-in-haiti-one-year-later.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Gelb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biometrics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=5004</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alan Gelb - This is a joint post with Caroline Decker. Less than a month until the anniversary of the earthquake that devastated the Haitian capital, 1.3 million still live in tents, clean water remains an issue with cholera rapidly spreading, and millions of cubic meters of debris litter the streets, hampering rebuilding efforts. But Haiti was hardly [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/11/why-have-mobile-phones-succeeded-where-other-technologies-have-not.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Aker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Phones]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=4687</guid>
		<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>Biometrics, Identity, and Development</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/10/biometrics-identity-and-development.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/10/biometrics-identity-and-development.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Gelb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biometrics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=4518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alan Gelb - I recently presented an overview of this work at one of CGD’s biweekly Research-in-Progress (RIP) staff meetings; colleagues urged me to share my thinking about this and the slides via this blog post. Iris scans, fingerprints and other biometrics are no longer only material for spy movies or crime thrillers.  Biometric identification is beginning to [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2010/09/c-u-l8ter-using-mobile-phones-as-a-literacy-tool-in-niger.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Aker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Phones]]></category>

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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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