Back into Poverty
Increase in food prices has pushed back into poverty at least 100 million people in 2008 and, according to the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition...
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south
Selva Amazónica, More Valuable Standing Than Felled
An article published on Science this week analyzes the development of the region across the Amazon deforestation frontier. In three words: boom and bust. It ...
If the Asian Growth Model is not Working Anymore
In 1981 poverty rate in China was 64% of the population, in 2004 the rate was 10%: it means that 500 million people stepped out of poverty (look here and her...
Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains
In this post Dani Rodrik explains why trade theories suggest that the U.S. should liberalize trade for agricultural products (especially cotton and sugar) an...
WikiPrices
Let’s try to imagine how a platform to collect and share market price information could work in a country where 46% of the children are malnourished and 80% ...
Hard Numbers, Hard Times
In a report published today, Oxfam predicts that by 2015 the average number of people affected by climate-related disasters every year will increase by 54%. ...
Information Flows on Mobiles
The idea to use mobile phones (here and here) to help economic development in the most remote corners of the world is fascinating and definitely smart. For o...
Understanding Capitalism
Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen argues, in an article published on The New York Review of Books, that the way out from the crisis passes through a better...
Detained and Dismissed
Human Rights Watch has just published a detailed report on Women’s Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention. Immigration detent...
Crisis from the South /3
The Inter-American Development Bank publishes today on its web-site previsions for remittance flows in 2009 to Latin America: they will go down for the first...
Brain matters
Saying that education strengths economic growth sounds good old common sense. But proving and measuring this relation is not immediate and therefore interest...
Crisis from the South /2
And it appears that the problem is not just limited to remittances. According to The Institute of International Finance, private financial flows from rich c...
guatemala
Eyes on Guatemala
The Economist has published an article on malnutrition in Guatemala. Hunger is not new in the country, with half of the children population not eating enough...
Human Rights in Guatemala
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has published the Annual Report 2008 on Guatemala. And hardly could have been worse. Last year murder r...
Wars in the Backyard
The National Security Archive has just declassified eleven documents on the extra judicial arrests conducted 25 years ago by the government of Guatemala. It ...
Crisis from the South /3
The Inter-American Development Bank publishes today on its web-site previsions for remittance flows in 2009 to Latin America: they will go down for the first...
Truth, finally. Maybe
Guatemalan newspaper La Hora affirms that, for the first time, the government will hand to the ministerio público (attorney general) the military archives r...
Crisis from the South
According to Banco de Guatemala, for the first time since 1999, in January 2009 remittances from abroad decreased by 7.75% compared to the same month in 2008...
Blog
Paper: Riding information crises: the performance of far-right Twitter users in Australia during the 2019–2020 bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic
In our paper out with Information, Communication & Society, we find that far-right accounts overperformed on Twitter during Covid-19 and associate it wit...
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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. Mark Twain
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Abbott: Strange as it may seem, they give ball players nowadays very peculiar names.
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All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing...
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m5s
Local participation and not unemployment explains the M5S result in the South
The abundance of economic data and the scarcity of social data with a comparable level of granularity is a problem for the quantitative analysis of social ph...
Quick analysis of the Italian referendum results
The 2016 Italian referendum torpedoed the constitutional reform presented by the government presided by Matteo Renzi (41). According to the final count, whic...
Cosa possiamo imparare dal M5S
Leggo e rispondo al post di Massimo Mantellini (Il M5S, il wifi e il principio di precauzione) in cui si evidenzia con preoccupazione come il Movimento abbia...
Road to Rome: The organisational and political success of the M5S
The Five Star Movement (M5S) obtained two major victories in the second round of municipal elections on 19 June 2016 in Rome and Turin. Rome attracted the mo...
Italy’s Five Star Movement - a spectral analysis of its political composition
To talk about identity and soul of the Five Star Movement (M5S) is not only politically contentious but also practically challenging because of the different...
r
recogeo: A new R package to reconcile changing geographic boundaries (and corresponding variables)
Demographics information is usually reported in relation to precise boundaries: administrative, electoral, statistical, etc. Comparing demographics informati...
Are you parallelizing your raster operations? You should!
If you plan to do anything with the raster package you should definitely consider parallelize all your processes, especially if you are working with very lar...
Explicit semantic analysis with R
Explicit semantic analysis (ESA) was proposed by Gabrilovich and Markovitch (2007) to compute a document position in a high-dimensional concept space. At the...
italian-general-election-2018
Local participation and not unemployment explains the M5S result in the South
The abundance of economic data and the scarcity of social data with a comparable level of granularity is a problem for the quantitative analysis of social ph...
2018 Italian general election: Details on my simulation
This simulation of the results for the 2018 general election is based on the results from the last two national elections (the Italian parliament election in...
balkans
The Dirt Floats
The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...
tech
On the Evolution of Thinking
What if we are becoming the very same Artificial Intelligence that we are trying to design? The doubt has has been raised by Nicholas Carr in an article publ...
Peer-reviewed articles
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risk-assessment
NDVI, risk assessment and developing countries
The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) estimates the greenness of plants covering the surface of the Earth by measuring the light reflected by the...
internet
The two alternatives to the monasterisation of the World wide web
Saint Michael's Abbey, in the Susa Valley, Piedmont. Source: Wikipedia
how-to
How to sync your Zotero library (and files) with WebDAV
In this post, I explain how to use an online file storing and sharing service like AARNet’s CloudStor (but any WebDAV service will do) to access and update y...
italian-european-election-2019
Il voto per le europee a Milano
La geografia socio-politica delle grandi città italiane del centro-nord è radicalmente cambiata negli ultimi 25 anni. Se osserviamo la distribuzione dei voti...
Peer reviewed article
Paper: Riding information crises: the performance of far-right Twitter users in Australia during the 2019–2020 bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic
In our paper out with Information, Communication & Society, we find that far-right accounts overperformed on Twitter during Covid-19 and associate it wit...
Video
Paper: Riding information crises: the performance of far-right Twitter users in Australia during the 2019–2020 bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic
In our paper out with Information, Communication & Society, we find that far-right accounts overperformed on Twitter during Covid-19 and associate it wit...