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IOWA BUSINESS HALL OF FAME HONORS REYNOLDS CRAMER, ELIZABETH ‘LIZ’ GARST AND RICK TOLLAKSON GREATER DES MOINES, IOWA (Jan. 17, 2023) – The Greater Des Moines Committee will recognize Reynolds Cramer, Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Garst and Rick Tollakson as the 2022 inductees to the Iowa Business Hal

Lorenzo Davids speaks to Kiewit about the relaunching of the train service between Eersterivier and Bellville.

Metropolitan Boston surely has a housing crisis. Our rents are second highest in the US and the cost of housing is a major reason why the state is now losing population despite thousands of unfilled jobs. The problem is that the haphazard, piecemeal approach for residential development in the city during the last three decades is not solving the housing crisis and has had

Martin Ravallion, a former director of the Development Research Group, and influential poverty researcher died on December 24th. We reflect on his legacy and some of the lessons he taught us.

Ravallion was influential and prolific. He has more than 370 publications that have been cited at least ten times. His articles extend from a 1979 theoretical note in Urban Studies on why wages may vary within an urban area to a full nine articles published last year in 2022, mostly on his primary topics of expertise—poverty and inequality. But Ravallion’s work extended far beyond those areas, including articles on education, multidimensional development indices, health, and more.

Lots of links to see you through the holidays

If this week’s links seem a little threadbare, you can blame the pestilence that has been sweeping through my household the last couple of weeks (thankfully, pestilence is an exaggeration: no one’s dropped off entirely yet). I’ve been spared, but the reward I’ve won from my immune system (or more likely, random luck) has been to be the designated cook, cleaner, shopper and collector of used tissues, full bin bags and baleful stares from my unwell companions.

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Dr. Zainab Ahmed on Monday dismissed reports on the allegations bothering on budget padding of

Happy belated Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it! We don’t have an equivalent celebration here in the UK—we’re much more likely to declare a public holiday for all the complaints we’d like to make, and to berate the people and institutions that have disappointed us, like Frank Costanza in Seinfeld.

New Development Bank to deploy $30 bn from 2022-2026-