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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.
Apr 13, 2007
Big Business Finds Traction in Africa
Two articles have come out this week that point to new possibilities for prosperity in sub-Saharan Africa.
Apr 02, 2007
One Thing Leads to Another, in AIDS Treatment Too
If there is a core truism to aid work it might be that all things are connected.
Mar 28, 2007
TB Rates Decline, But XDR-TB Lurks in the Wings
The World Health Organization has announced that worldwide tuberculosis cases as a percentage of the population held steady in 2006. Yet more cases of tuberculosis are identified as extensively drug-resistent (XDR-TB).
Mar 20, 2007
(Red) Gets a Beating
Critics are pillorying Bono’s current project to save Africa, Product (Red).
Mar 14, 2007
U.S. Far From Free for its Migrant Workers
A new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center questions whether guest worker programs in fact benefit workers as they should.
Mar 07, 2007
The Danger of Denial
An article in the March 12 edition of The New Yorker provides an overview of AIDS denial, and how it has influenced AIDS treatment practices in South Africa.