This week's links include a profile on the new head of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Oxfam ruffling feathers at Davos and more.

World Bank member countries have pledged $75 billion in lending to the world’s poorest countries over the next three years.

India's sudden ban on high-denomination bank notes causes trouble, what's wrong with randomised controlled trials, labour abuse accusations in Malaysia and more

Climate talks, cigarettes the big killer in poorer nations, Africans keen on china and more

Venezuela's implosion, the US foreign assistance budget, Zimbabwe going cashless, and more.