<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The press coverage of the World Bank’s 360 page report has been sensationalist and misrepresents the analysis.  It’d be better to read for oneself than rely on the drive-by interpretations of people paid for instant opinions  <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2016" target="_blank" class="">http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2016</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 25, 2016, at 19:36, Nuno Garcia <<a href="mailto:ngarcia@ngarcia.net" class="">ngarcia@ngarcia.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi DeeDee, good pointer!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>I sense a lot of misuse of good information here.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Surely these guys are joking, as much in the same manner, we can all say (and possibly, more accurately) "Celebrating the new year increases inequality".</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is really the Internet to blame? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Warm regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nuno Garcia (Portugal)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 January 2016 at 17:47, DeeDee Halleck <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:deedeehalleck@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">deedeehalleck@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/3055498/fast-feed/the-internet-is-increasing-inequality-says-the-world-bank" target="_blank" class="">http://www.fastcompany.com/3055498/fast-feed/the-internet-is-increasing-inequality-says-the-world-bank</a><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">xx</div><div class="">dd</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class="">-- <br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><a href="http://www.deepdishwavesofchange.org/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.deepdishwavesofchange.org</a></div></div>
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