US Government asks all governments to respect World Press & Internet Freedom except for US Government

From wonkette, the State Department has announced with impeccable timing (what is that Wikileaks thing?) and deafness to irony:

The theme for next year’s commemoration {of World Press Freedom Day}?will be 21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers. The United States places technology and innovation at the forefront of its diplomatic and development efforts. New media has empowered citizens around the world to report on their circumstances, express opinions on world events, and exchange information in environments sometimes hostile to such exercises of individuals’ right to freedom of expression. At the same time, we are concerned about the determination of some governments to censor and silence individuals, and to restrict the free flow of information. We mark events such as World Press Freedom Day in the context of our enduring commitment to support and expand press freedom and the free flow of information in this digital age.

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World Bank President is running out of things to do

World Bank President Robert Zoellick has recently been able to work on things normally considered outside his job description. Last month, he informed academics of his new plan for reinventing economic development research. On Monday in the Financial Times, Zoellick tackled virtually all G20 international economic cooperation issues, including reducing US government budget deficits, international agreement on currency intervention, infrastructure investment in emerging markets, and a new Bretton Woods international monetary system?based on a return to the gold standard.

?According to unconfirmed sources, Mr. Zoellick asked his staff to next work on eliminating penalty kicks in deciding major soccer championships.

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World Bank allowed to dismantle the stereotypical images of Ghana

The World Bank has apologized for the photos on the web site for participants at its recent annual meetings, which shows offensive stereotyping in Ghana. A Ghanaian journalist broke the story after seeing the images illustrating "" a country full of hungry and poor people." This has prompted an outcry General and debate in Ghana.

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World according to Blattman

Honor excellent blog of flight of Chris Blattman, I reproduce some of his posts recently because they were exceptionally fun and good and because I'm just too lazy to write my own blog today.

Distorted favorite maps of Africa:

Favorite wordle on which countries are listed in the journal of Development Economics below.

I am fascinated by the present.An idea that I am studying in my own research is that success are suréchantillonnées, a thesis brilliant for which there is a dramatic lack of confirmation in the wordle (3 of 4 gang are MIA, what was going on?)A document written already showed a strong association between income per capita and studied by economists, which confirms another personal hypothesis preferred - the poor get the worst of all, including the worst economy.

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The World Bank has apologized for the photos on the web site for participants at its recent annual meetings, which shows offensive stereotyping in Ghana. A Ghanaian journalist broke the story after seeing the images illustrating "" a country full of hungry and poor people."

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World according to Blattman

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Distorted favorite maps of Africa:

Favorite wordle on which countries are listed in the journal of Development Economics below.

I am fascinated by the present.An idea that I am studying in my own research is that success are suréchantillonnées, a thesis brilliant for which there is a dramatic lack of confirmation in the wordle (3 of 4 gang are MIA, what was going on?)A document written already showed a strong association between income per capita and studied by economists, which confirms another personal hypothesis preferred - the poor get the worst of all, including the worst economy.

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Another problem of fake numbers on an American topic (and NYT) concern even more world hunger

In the wake of aid Watch posts on composed world issues of hunger, the NYT today revealed another scandal composed of numbers problem in another region:

{Methodology} is denigrated by professional mathematicians....{which} {creative numbers of} the laughingstock of the community of numbers.

It is bad than enough analysis mathematician, Professor UC Irvine, HAL s. Stern called the statistical community to boycott participation…

{Another expert said} "is not a sincere effort to use mathematics to find the answer to tout.Il is clearly an effort to use mathematics as a cover for everything that you want to....""This is just nonsense math."

{Outside evaluators} cannot {fully verify numbers} …because lack of transparency…Three designers {number} said that {agency declaration} did not check numbers, as they turned.

This anger is directed towards a certain number who Americans DO with passion.

College football rankings.

See her full NYT article in the sports section. to my knowledge the NYT did not run a story about also dubious methodology number NYT reports on areas we readers are apparently much less concerned: worldwide the maternal mortality, world hunger and world poverty.

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