- Where's the best place to be a woman? See the gender-gap map of the world.
- Australia's climate change policies hit the international news spotlight last week. Be sure to use the Lowy Poll interactive to chart change in Australian attitudes to climate change since 2006.
- Six examples of the impact of mobile phone technology on development.
- The annual Global Hunger Index shows hunger is falling and Sub-Saharan Africa is doing better than South Asia.
- The World Bank’s new poverty targets in a Pacific Islands context.
- A new report from ODI on the relationship between disasters and poverty: The Geography of Poverty, Disasters and Climate Extremes in 2030.
- Great article on how gender-based violence inhibits development.
- Nifty interactive tool for those wanting to know more about aid projects and organisations in North Korea since 1995. And read this WSJ article about how tool was developed. (Thanks Natalya.)
Development links: North Korea, poverty, gender, hunger, mobile phones and more
Published 28 Oct 2013
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