Economics and similar, for the sleep-deprived
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Ee-aye-ee-aye-ee-aye oh, up the World Bank Income Classifications we go!
Yay! The land of my birth gained promotion to "Lower middle income" from "low income" last week - this is the development economics equivalent of getting from the Conference to League Two. Zambia were promoted alongside fellow perennial resources-state battlers Ghana.
As the Guardian article points out, although this has a lot to do with the copper boom (and Chinese investment), it is also the case that foreign aid increased as a proportion of Zambian GDP, and the authors are correct to note that this is a palpable win for the "aid works" lobby.
Also interesting: pop-up solar powered internet cafes. One of the Great Lost Posts from "project Zambia" three years ago was going to be an explanation of why I was much more sympathetic to the "one laptop per child" idea than most of my mates - stripped of the child-related mawkishness it was a great big ICT development strategy. And as we noted, the thing about human beings is that we really like communications technology, and we're often surprisingly good at using it.
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