From The McKinsey Quarterly, a neat interactive graphic exploring global energy demand . (Hat tip: Bojan Bozovic)

For your weekend pleasure, The Big Money has a great visual history of the credit card .

Development requires fresh thinking. Throwing money at tried and failed programs is as deplorable as inaction. But new doesn't necessari...

Gini coefficients and poverty lines are helpful for forming estimates. But lest we forget, poverty, as informed by our social life, is cont...

Duncan Green has a thought-provoking, and downright frightening, post on how institutions may shape the climate change debate in the coming...

Pakistan is so bad that we're highlighting trash pick-up  and the former American ambassador may soon be effectively governing Afghanis...

It's pretty rare that a blog makes me want to buy a textbook; I've just finished graduate school, have a pretty solid grasp of my su...

An interesting piece by Sebastian Mallaby in which he argues that competitive devaluations could undermine economic recovery. I don't s...

Have a look at this fascinating interactive graphic comparing key fiscal indicators in the United States and Canada. I had have read stuff ...

Watch this introductory video and get excited about the future: Introduction to Wolfram|Alpha by Stephen Wolfram

Via the World Bank's Private Sector Development blog : Mongolia is about the size of Alaska and has a population of fewer then 3 million...

Chris Blattman  asks : Why don't we write more about worst practices? Well for one thing, agencies and consultancies that rely on gover...

We live in a world where web 2.0 and massive technological innovations have created unprecedented potential for collaboration with no regar...

Good riddance to voice mail. I have seriously been thinking of changing the greeting on my phone to: "You have reached Patrick Thomas....

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For those of you keeping score at home, VoxEU has a handy chronology of the financial crisis .

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This article is a great follow up to the post I wrote a few weeks ago.  New estimates suggest that the cuts in carbon emissions that woul...

As a technology nerd, I am excited about the prospect of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles ( PHEV ). General Motors recently sponsored a Soci...

The Guardian has a handy interactive feature on the spread of the new swine influenza strain, which the WHO warns could become a global pan...