Journal:
Development Outreach
Development Outreach
ISSN
1020-797X
Publisher
World Bank
Editor-in-Chief
Development Outreach was a magazine in the field of global knowledge for development. Managed by the World Bank Institute, it was published two or three times a year from 2009 to 2011 and reflected the learning programs of the World Bank. The magazine was designed to occupy the middle ground between scholarly journal and general interest magazine, and it presented a range of viewpoints from renowned authors and specialists worldwide. Articles on complex topics were written to be accessible to the general reader. Articles were reviewed by an international editorial board culled from the private sector, development community at large, and academia.
Published two to three times per year 2008-2011
Editors: Mary McNeil, José-Manuel Bassat, John P. Didier, Junko Saito, Sina Odugbem
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The Greening of Development : No Growth Without Energy
( 2011-04)Economic development increases the demand for energy. This is true for countries at all income levels, although as economic growth progresses, the demand tends to increase more in the low- and middle-income countries than in high-income ones. But energy remains a key ingredient for economic growth at all stages of development. -
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Cities on the Prowl
( 2011-04)Cities in the modern world are beginning to share some features with the city-states of millennia past. Now, as then, cities are important, even critical, to economic development. Unlike the walled cities that harbored flourishing trade in medieval Europe, today, cities by the thousands all around the world are looking outward in search not of silk and spices, but rather sources of finance, global talent, and most of all, good ideas. But the search for knowledge isn't always easy. -
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Agriculture’s Special Powers in Reducing Poverty
(World Bank, 2008-10-01)Agriculture can reduce poverty directly, but the contribution of agriculture to poverty reduction differs according to country types. -
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Biofuels
(World Bank, 2008-10-01)Biofuels trade liberalization would increase competition in the sector. But for this to deliver net gains in welfare for developing countries a level playing field is needed. -
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Mobile Technology : One Core Lesson, Many Possible Solutions
( 2010-07)Over half of people in poor countries, including a quarter of those over the age of 14 in Afghanistan, use mobile phones. -
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South-South Mutual Learning : A Priority for National Capacity Development in Africa
( 2010-10)Evidence-based knowledge and innovation are critical for national development in Africa if the continent is to sustain the momentum of its transformation agenda. South- South Cooperation (SSC) is a mechanism that can contribute to this objective. Knowledge- and experience-sharing are taking place on different scales among African countries; but there is a need for coordination among these initiatives and with national development plans and processes. This will help scale up and institutionalize the practice of learning for development effectiveness as a capacity development tool. -
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South Meets South : Enriching the Development Menu
( 2010-10)African countries, like Nigeria, with an emerging information technology (IT) industry, are examples of how globalization has opened up vast new opportunities. Information technology and business process outsourcing is a multibillion dollar talent-driven industry with a market that is still untapped. Africa is keen on exploring this new frontier which has the potential to create thousands of quality jobs for its young people. But to do so, it must nurture the right skills. Where can these be found? -
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The South-South Opportunity
( 2010-10)Imagine, just a few years from now, a developing country official who is struggling with a difficult problem: perhaps reintegrating demobilized soldiers back into their communities that have been torn by conflict, or helping the desperately poor climb out of poverty through targeted assistance programs. -
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Rise of the Global South and Its Impact on South-South Cooperation
( 2010-10)Over the past two decades, a fundamental transformation has taken place in the global economy caused by the impressive economic growth of developing countries like China, India, Brazil, and South Africa. The economic center of gravity is inexorably moving toward the developing South. The remarkable upsurge in cooperation between developing countries, characterized as South-South cooperation, must be understood as part of this larger story. -
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Aid Effectiveness : Why Does It Matter to Partners in South-South Cooperation?
( 2010-10)Why should partners in South-South cooperation care about aid effectiveness? What is the relevance of the commitments embodied in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005) and the Accra Agenda for Action (2008) to development actors? These are questions I frequently hear.