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Dear friends, Today we are trying something new. I wanted to share with you the reasons why I think we can be optimistic about Africa's development prospects, but rather than writing something up, I thought of using video. Please, share your feedback, not only on whether you agree that Africa is on the right track, but on the video itself.
Africa on the brink of a take off | End Poverty
Financial Crisis, Africa's Permanent Damage, and Aid Effectiveness | A blog about Governance and Development for All
Aid is dead: it is worse than merely useless, since it abets and perpetuates mis-governance and dependency by Africa. No, to the contrary, massive additional infusions of aid are crucial for all of Africa. This massive transfer of aid to governments in Africa is particularly urgent right now, in the midst of the financial crisis, which is bound to inflict permanent damage everywhere in the continent. These blanket statements are nonsense, on both sides. While they may contain a 'straw man' element, unfortunately in slight variants one often sees such pronouncements in current writings and public debates. In spite of the practical irrelevance of holding on to such extreme positions, such artificial debates go on and on, pitting the extremes against each other.Global Demographics
Die Kriegstreiber von nebenan: Deutschland und der Terror im Kongo - Mittwoch, 04.05.2011
Leise Stimme, eloquentes deutsch, fanatischer Blick. Der Ruander Ignace M. war bis zu seiner Verhaftung in Deutschland Präsident und politischer Führer der Hutu-Miliz FDLR, der sogenannten demokratischen Befreiungsfront Ruandas. Eine der mörderischsten Rebellengruppen, die im Nordosten des Kongo marodiert. Der Ruander lebte unbehelligt in Mannheim und soll den Krieg im Kongo per Laptop und Handy gesteuert haben. Das behauptet die Anklage: Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit, Kriegsverbrechen. <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>Foreign Aid for a Frugal Age | Miller-McCune
IPA holds a Primary School Deworming Day in Kenya.(Innovations for Poverty Action) As they prepared to take control of the House of Representatives, congressional Republicans were also getting ready to take on foreign aid — with a scalpel or a meat-ax, depending on how one parsed words. U.S. Rep.
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More Than 1 Billion People Are Hungry in the World - By Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
For many in the West, poverty is almost synonymous with hunger.
