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James Anderson
@Jimnosredna
World Bank Global Lead for Anticorruption. | Dad | ex-expat #Mongolia #Vietnam | https://t.co/H9k5foNMY8
Sep 8, 2023 • 19 tweets • 9 min read
I’m delighted to share our new study on digital tools for better #governance in Africa, a collaboration between @wbg_gov @WBG_DigitalDev @WBG_Finance

A thread with some takeaways from Volume 1… 1/
openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/4…The cover image of a report titled “Reaching the Potential for the Digital Economy in Africa—Digital Tools for Better Governance.” The cover indicates that this is Volume 1 of a larger project called Governance and the Digital Economy in Africa. It bears the logos of the World Bank Group and the Digital Development Partnership. The report cover features a photograph take at the University of Namibia in Windhoek, showing people and computer banks. The photo is credited to John Hogg / World Bank. How do countries in Africa compare? There is wide variation across countries in the use of digital tools for better governance, but largely in line with countries in other regions with similar income levels. 2/
@wbg_gov @WBG_DigitalDev @WBG_Finance openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/4…A scatterplot showing the GovTech Maturity Index on the vertical axis and the log of GDP per capita on the horizontal axis. Each mark is a country, with African countries marked by a three-letter abbreviation, and non-African countries marked by the letter X. Both are widely disbursed, and for any interval on the horizontal axis there are some African countries that score highly and some that score poorly.
May 16, 2019 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
We are deeply saddened by the loss of our colleague and friend Steve Knack. He was such a careful empirical economist, always engaging on the many topics he studied. A thread can’t convey his warmth, but can hopefully gives a sense of the breadth of his research. 1/N Steve made major contributions to the literatures on institutions, growth, social capital, aid, and more. Among several path breaking studies was this one with Phil Keefer. 2/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
Apr 12, 2019 • 24 tweets • 10 min read
1/n. Now that spring has come, I see some green on my handy air pollution app for UB. Seems a good time to update my charts on air pollution in Ulaanbaatar, #Mongolia. Here is a thread with the key results. #утаа 2. It’s been encouraging to see use of data in the NSO publication on the health effects of air pollution, but the series starts only in January 2014. You can see a higher level of PM10 at that point.
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