With local & international experts in #Bukhara, @WorldBank team discusses #Uzbekistan's🇺🇿 #poverty reduction strategies, challenges & opportunities for economic #growth, green and sustainable #development, & how international experience can help @GOVuz achieve these goals.
The World Bank MPO is an excellent resource for development professionals, covering macroeconomic and poverty developments in 147 developing countries, including separate country notes on critical challenges for economic growth and poverty reduction.

Macro Poverty Outlook
The Macro Poverty Outlook analyzes macroeconomic and poverty developments in developing countries.
www.worldbank.org
And they’re still chatting on. Four different clusters of my team discussing elite bargains in their neck of the woods. For a group of macro-fiscal wonks this is refreshing.
Look who made a special appearance at our economists’ retreat! Thanks @gamblingondev for a fantastic session! When my team chooses something over the coffee break you know you’re winning with your arguments! Quite a buzz going on here right now.
Gambling for Development in 30 points.
1. The argument
2. What it means for international development efforts?
3. What it means for research?
4. What is missing?
5. Who may like reading this book and why? 1/n
@Niginakhon_ Their annual music competition must surely be SamSung?
@gamblingondev @AsthanaRoli YES! I'm energized by our chat earlier today. @AsthanaRoli time for some planning over paneer!
@gamblingondev - while everyone is posting their touristy photos, I’m putting this great read to *real* use with the fabulous team @minfinuzb. #Uzbekistan’s ambitious transformation in recent years is a missing chapter we should write for the second edition!
Slovakian sees a video about American suburbs and posts questions to Reddit. The level of bafflement is hilarious and appropriate.
Hello Boysun! You’re putting on quite the Bahori show. Although it feels a bit more yoz than bahor!😅
Today marks the end of four years as a New Zealand public servant.
It’s been an absolute privilege to work with talented, committed people dedicated to a critical mission: improving lives and futures for New Zealanders and the world.
@gamblingondev Surely you must feel some remorse for unseating the epitome of irony - Kwame Nkrumah as the #1 bestseller on Amazon.
@scepticalranil @gamblingondev Yes! There's not enough good guidance on how to advise policymakers. I also think uncertainty - especially social/political - and how it influences decisions, is heavily ignored, leading to pushes for infeasible or unenduring 1st best technical advice that fails.
Things you can do with a hard copy of Gambling on Development that you cannot with an ebook.
Reaching for that book on the top shelf (before and after)
Ebook out around the world. Hard copy in UK on 5 May, US 1 Aug. Order from UK now.
Th best early-career economist job in the world!
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Ka maumahara tonu tātou ki a rātou… We will remember them 🇳🇿🇦🇺

Ka maumahara tonu tatou ki a ratou – we will remember them. Today, New Zealanders around the world remember the sacrifices made by all who fought in The World Wars: our veterans, our armed services personnel, families of the fallen, and our refugee communities. #KeiWareWareTatou
@gamblingondev @yuenyuenang
@gamblingondev @yuenyuenang Stefan - will be released in an electronic edition (e.g., Kindle) for those of us who can’t easily get their hands on a physical copy?
This is the greatest day of my life
Netflix put up its price and its quantity fell. Why this is a shock is beyond me.