Center for Global Development: It’s Technology, Stupid: How Important is Innovation for Better Development Outcomes?
Owen Barder, vice president and director of CGD Europe and senior fellow at CGD; Lee Robinson, research associate at CGD Europe; and Euan Ritchie, research assistant at CGD Europe, discuss the role of technology in reducing child mortality by examining data visualizations. The authors note, “[A]t least half of the improvement in child mortality over the last century is not from countries getting richer, but from improved and more widely available technology…” (4/10).