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The Regional Australia Institute has released a new report, entitled "Rethinking the Future of Northern Australia - More than Mines, Dams and Development Dreams". In a well reasoned and considered report, The RAI suggests that the vast potential of northern Australia is being held back by serious bottlenecks in infrastructure and human capital, but strategies…
Google is developing plans to use a network of huge balloons to provide internet to the two-thirds of the world currently without web access. Project Loon balloons float in the stratosphere, twice as high as airplanes and the weather. They are carried around the Earth by winds and they can be steered by rising or descending to an altitude with…
Just simply an outstanding example of technology and resource transfer between a Bank [BankMecu] and a Not-For-Profit organisation [ Alternative Technology Association - ATA ] to support sustainable development East Timor [Timor-Leste] is one of the poorest countries in our region. At present, only 20 per cent of the population have access to mains electricity, and communities in remote areas are not…
This is re-produced from Andrew Leigh's WebSite. Among the most interesting debates in economics today is the dispute between Jeffrey Sachs and William Easterly over how best to help the world’s poor. The discussion is interesting not only because it concerns the most important question in all of economics, but also because Sachs and Easterly happen to be exceptionally good…