…of an emerging model of development finance focused on “domestic finance.” But it is not yet exemplary of how most African sovereign bonds are issued today. Many development experts applaud…

…shape of the world surrounding them. Columbus claims the New World, painting by John Vanderlyn, 1847. 1650s-1680s: A Taste for Luxury: The first coffeehouses spread from the Muslim world (through…

…world’s military-industrial economics. Recalling the experience of the JTG during World War II, Lowe noted that information about the Japanese industrial economy had not been hidden or secret. Rather, it…

…the World Bank dedicated its 1997 flagship World Development Report to the “rediscovery” of the state after two decades of denigrating or denying its role, the report was also very…

…but because it was cop stuff, it was ruggedized, with black and yellow rubber bumpers, because apparently being a cop makes you a klutz. I snuck a look at the…

…the world who have diabetes. Fig. 2. Diabetes mortality. World Health Organization 2014. Used with permission. Today, personal blood glucose meters are widely considered best practice for optimal diabetes management….

…and unrealistic unawareness of the threats nations face today. For many in the intelligence world today, hacking into computers and network infrastructures worldwide is, quite simply, an extension of the…

…federal charges for this mission on behalf of what came to be known as “fake news.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has emerged with a seven-point plan to tame “fake news”…

…and unabashed, into other lives.” Instead, he continued, “it has erected an electronic curtain, composed of our own prejudices and preconceptions, through which the outside world can only be dimly…

…(the state of the world, the mysteries of the cosmos), but the state of the world itself (the fact that the world still exists as we speak) that provides information…

…lives of people around the world—but which ultimately became partial pastiche instead of total archive (Lemov). From this era comes the story of the “bombing encyclopaedia” that sought to catalogue…

Hackers create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things. (McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto, 2004:4). What Was GhostSec?…

…Mecca of world finance. The fight against street crime was therefore also indirectly about permitting New York to continue to amass immense capital. As surprising as it is, the argument…

…formats by institutions like the American Philosophical Society and Indiana University’s Archive of the Languages of the World. It was a race to fix the characteristics of thousands of languages…

…Assessments” from around the world (Green 2014; World Bank 2001). Alongside the World Bank Development Sourcebook (World Bank 1996) and a range of other handbooks and sourcebooks and kits, the…

…of world leaders (Chen 2010). TuniLeaks run by Nawaat Based on that initial wave of reporting, opinion pieces were written predicting that the political impact of the cables’ release would…

…up as an analytical source by news organizations can signal against its reliability as a primary source to other mainstream journalistic news organizations and simultaneously signal its attractiveness to conspiracy…

…nature of microfinance permits lenders to expand quickly and slash costs. Microfinance is device-like in another way. Many microfinance providers seek to earn profit and pay for their work through…

…use it. With the Internet, the landfill has changed, and so have the stakes. As more of our lives move online, we now do much of our work and pay…

…have become synonymous with the booms and busts of twentieth century American manufacturing. Nor is the degree of its decay unusual. Aficionados of ruin will find crumbling infrastructures arresting and…

…mitigate such catastrophes in the future. The term systemic risk was coined on the onset of the Latin American debt crisis of the early 1980s by William Cline, an international…

…samples from ducks in a live poultry market. Hong Kong is the gateway where commodities produced in China are inspected and distributed to destinations around the world. Hong Kong’s ambivalent…

…outside the industry. Take, for instance, Rule 12 of Michael Pollan’s Food Rules, which urges readers to steer clear of the center store: Rule #12: Shop the peripheries of the…

…they saw as the innovation that is changing most lives in the developing world, they answered, “human-centered design,” in reference to a particular brand of humanitarian design advocated by IDEO.org…

…statistical control” (Fisher 1934). The brutality of the First World War had made people into resources for procuring blood, but the Second World War produced the conditions for the large-scale,…

…ignorance, but rather reveled in my queries about the logics and logistics of computing. When speaking to Noah, I came alive: my mind racing, picking apart the world of our…

…end of their reproductive lives. Moreover, in practice, doctors and social security administrators today still rarely know about this recently adopted policy. An invisibility mechanism is thus replicated from mother…