Archive for January, 2007



Sunday, January 21st, 2007

Africa Commission to world: “Show me the money”

Over its first eight chapters, the Report of the Commission for Africa discusses a huge range of the obstacles facing Africa’s development, from the continuing prevalence of conflict to the scourge of AIDS. It also proposes a range of solutions to these problems, from policy shifts to massive infrastructure projects. Almost everything proposed, however, has […]

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Sunday, January 14th, 2007

Giving everyone a bite of the pie - or, at least, the maize stew

The Commission for Africa Report doesn’t do itself any favours by calling its eighth chapter “Leaving No-one Out: Investing in People.” To anyone who’s worked at an organisation undergoing the personnel policy inspection of the same name, this just conjures up images of council busybodys measuring steps against wheelchair access standards. Mercifully, the chapter is […]

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