- World Bank President Jim Kim has unsurprisingly been nominated for a second term, 10 months before his first term comes to an end, as the Bank is in the middle of major and controversial reforms he has enacted.
- Lant Pritchett has called out the Obama administration for not embracing an 'open, merit-based, and transparent' process for the position yet again. William Easterly reminds us of this gem he wrote when Kim was first nominated in 2012.
- What do development NGOs in Australia use the internet for? The simple two-word answer: 'chasing donations' according to a new paper from Sachini Muller and Terence Wood.
- A team of Stanford University researchers have used a new and unconventional measurement tool that draws on machine learning and (day and night) satellite imagery to predict economic wellbeing in poor countries. A summary of their research paper is available here, and the project website is here.
- Justin Sandefur from the Centre for Global Development has written a commentary and critique of this new approach.
- This visualisation tool charts the evolution of economic freedom over the past 30 years.
- The Centre for Global Development also has a podcast with development wonk Duncan Green discussing ‘how does change happen’?
- The Guardian details the plight of indigenous communities across the world that are being evicted from their homes in the name of conservation.
- Finally, for all of you Twitter fiends, the BBC Media Action Insight Blog has a list of who to follow in the International Development space.