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2007

Fall 2007
We're launching a new ClearWriter website where our ClearEdits software (and demos), online writing training, and information on our instructor-led workshops can all be accessed. The new ClearWriter site is full of resources and is user friendly. There, you'll find a blog with regular postings by the writers and editors at Communications Development Incorporated, an array of writing resources, and our favorite links for grammar and style-as well as links to dictionaries, glossaries, translators, writers' forums, and search engines for editors and writers.

We've also updated our ClearEdits editing software. ClearEdits 3.1 offers major improvements over previous versions, the most important being support for Microsoft Word 2007. ClearEdits 3.1 also includes streamlined editorial advice, fewer false positives, and new editorial rules. And like earlier versions, ClearEdits 3.1 is highly customizable, allowing you to choose which categories of edits to use, to check using British or American English, and to add elements of your personal or organizational style with MyEdits.

For UNICEF we just completed the design, editing, and production of Malaria and children: Progress in intervention coverage. Taking advantage of the book's four-color format, we selected more than 30 photos, used throughout the book, to give readers compelling visuals to accompany the narrative of the progress being made against the devastation caused by malaria among children.

We've just completed World Development Report 2008 on development and agriculture for the World Bank. We have edited this publication for the World Bank since the 1980s.

Summer 2007
For Mathematica Policy Research we're editing, designing, and producing Issues & Answers reports by the U.S. Department of Education's 10 Regional Educational Laboratories, an ongoing series of reports from short-term Fast Response Projects on education issues of importance at local, state, and regional levels.

For the American Institutes for Research, under the U.S. Department of Education, we completed the design, editing, and production of roughly 70 What Works Clearinghouse Intervention and Topic Reports that promote informed education decisionmaking through reporting on current education concerns.

For the Center for Global Development we did the editing, layout, and production of Exclusion, Gender and Education. A companion to Inexcusable Absence, this work presents case studies of girls' education in developing countries and the limits of standard education development strategies.

We completed the technical editing of volume 21 of both The World Bank Economic Review and The World Bank Research Observer, the most recent in an ongoing effort going back more than five years.

Spring 2007
For the Center for Global Development we designed, edited, and produced the report, A Risky Business: Saving money and improving global health through better demand forecasts.

Now in our eleventh year producing this annual publication, we completed the design, editing, and production of World Development Indicators 2007 for the World Bank. We also produced its five companion books-The Little Data Book, The Little Green Data Book, The Little Data Book on External Debt, The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology, and The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development.

We did the creative design, editing, and production of Water for food-Water for life: A comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture for the International Water Management Institute.

2006

For the United Nations Development Programme we completed the technical editing, layout, and production of Human Development Report 2006, Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis. This report used its creative layout and design to further enhance and better express the issues grappled within the text itself.

The World Bank's World Development Report 2007 on development and youth, which we edited, is on the web.

We redesigned and reconfigured Africa Development Indicators 2006 for the World Bank, making it more user friendly and integrating design and content. We participated in the writing and drafting of the book and edited and laid out the book and its companion publication, The Little Data Book on Africa.

For the tenth year in a row, we designed, edited, and produced World Development Indicators 2006 and its three companion books-The Little Data Book, The Little Green Data Book, and The Little Data Book on External Debt-for the World Bank-for the World Bank.

For the International Task Force on Global Public Goods we designed, edited, and produced an eight-volume report, Expert Paper Series and Meeting Global Challenges.

We edited and managed the production of the multiauthored book, The New Public Finance, for the United Nations Development Programme. Edited by Inge Kaul and Pedro Conceição, the book includes contributions by more than 25 experts in the field and has a foreword by Mark Malloch Brown and a prologue by Joseph E. Stiglitz.

2005

We designed, edited, and produced Global Governance Initiative Annual Report 2005 for the World Economic Forum.

We completed our eighth year of editing, designing, and producing Human Development Report 2005: International cooperation at a crossroads, for the United Nations Development Programme.