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Polémica Por Aplicación De Microsoft Para Evitar Barrios Peligrosos | BBC Mundo

January 27, 2012

Pero lo más preocupante para Vishnu Sridharan es cómo la aplicación empata con un concepto que ha sido muy problemático en la descomposición urbana: se denomina redlining -del inglés para línea roja- literalmente trazar una línea roja alrededor de ciertos vecindarios para excluirlos de ciertos servicios.

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Africa: Mobile Phone - Convenient Communication or Tracking Device? | AllAfrica.com

November 15, 2011

In the future, mobile "mesh networking" technology developed by the NGO New America Foundation will allow mobile users to create local telecommunications networks that the authorities can't shut down. Using that technology and existing transmitters, ...

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New America Foundation to Conduct Landmark Initiative on Global Savings and Social Protection Linkages

September 19, 2011

The New America Foundation’s Global Assets Project is pleased to announce the launch of the Global Savings and Social Protection Initiative (GSSP).

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Don't Worry. Be Happy. Seriously. No Kidding. | Real Change News

September 1, 2011

Charles Kenny, economist and author of “Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding and How We Can Help the World Even More” [Basic Books, $26.99], thinks that progress is happening, specifically in quality of life areas such as health, ...

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Time To Focus on Excesses of Practice | ESPN

August 30, 2011

In Praise of the Six-Pack: Charles Kenny, a fellow of the New America Foundation, argues that drinking beer is good for economic growth. Kenny's new book, "Getting Better," about the positive trends in nearly all indicators of global well-being -- this ...

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The Stranglehold on Domestic Policy | The Washington Post

July 28, 2011

Few liberals talk like that today, though the flame still flickers in places such as the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation, where Ray Boshara has conducted his long campaign to address the wealth gap. This challenge does not lack for ...

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This Column Will Change Your Life: Poverty and willpower | The Guardian (London)

July 22, 2011

... Poverty, as the analyst Jamie Holmes put it in the New Republic, means making more trade-offs and resisting more temptations – depleting the very willpower people might have used to lift themselves out of it. ...

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Why Can't the Poor Escape Poverty? | The New Republic

June 22, 2011

Jamie Holmes sat down with Richard Just of The New Republic to discuss his article "Why Can't More Poor People Escape Poverty?"

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Arab Spring: In Foreign Aid to Egypt and Tunisia, Questions Loom | International Business Times

June 17, 2011

... that lay behind it were a very high joblessness rate connected with a rather sclerotic private sector run by a few companies with very good connections to government," said Charles Kenny, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. ...

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A World of 10 Billion | Maclean's Magazine

June 15, 2011

Even given these challenges, Charles Kenny, a development economist in Washington, believes we can sustainably support 10 billion people. “It will take political action and big dollar amounts,” he says, “but amounts we can afford. ...

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