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May 30, 2007
Cheap Instead of Free: Lessons in Effective Aid
In an attempt to curtail the phenomenon in aid circles in which materials distributed for free are thrown away or never used, some groups are experimenting with making the poor pay for certain interventions, such as bed nets. The goal is to determine whether payment will increase use.
May 30, 2007
Colombia Sees an Upsurge in Investing, and a Chance for Change
New investment in Colombia business may be signalling a move toward stability for the country as a whole. And stability is great, because it opens the way for reinvestment in infrastructure which will benefit the poor.
May 24, 2007
Laptops for School Children Don’t Improve Performance
Secondary schools in the United States that have experimented with one-child-one-laptop provision are shutting down those programs after five or more years, an article in the New York Times reports.
May 22, 2007
Decrease Yields, Increase Food Security
A recent Associated Press article cited a Danish study which concluded that food security in sub-Saharan Africa would not be negatively impacted if 50 percent of the agricultural acreage in Western food-exporting countries were converted to organic by 2020.
May 08, 2007
Overselling Results
Effective investment in development continues to be handicapped by overselling of results and false expectations. The greatest danger is that such overselling makes cynics of a whole generation of donors.
May 02, 2007
How Do You Empower Women?
Some recent efforts focused on empowering women have in fact had the opposite effect.
Apr 25, 2007
Education and Development: A Delicate Marriage
India’s large supply of skilled workers coupled with the comparably low salaries they are paid give Indian companies a competitive advantage in world markets—yet recent studies show that advantage is on the wane.
Apr 17, 2007
Malaria-Free Zones to Malaria-Free World
A Ghanian economist is setting up malaria-free zones in various countries in Africa in an attempt to stop the disease one town at a time.
Apr 14, 2007
Little More Than Warnings for Darfur
The conflict in Darfur between Darfurian rebel groups and the government-backed janjaweed militia has been raging since early 2003. Since that time Western governments have been almost universally reluctant to create clear consequences for Khartoum.
Apr 14, 2007
The Success of Mozambique
The southern African country of Mozambique is one of the poorest nations in the world. Yet it has also managed to nearly double its per capita GDP in the last fifteen years.