Archive for February, 2007



Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Africa Commission: the summary, summarised

The Commission for Africa was a collection of African and non-African politicians, academics and activists, appointed in 2005 by Tony Blair to put forward proposals for policies to kick-start African development. Their report was released in early 2005; as well as the 464-page full report, there’s a reduced “The Argument” version which is also available […]

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Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Stats without the snoozing

I don’t normally tell you guys about individual information resources, preferring to distill them down into a meanigful melange of facts and theory. But this one’s so fabulous I’ll make an exception.
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Sunday, February 4th, 2007

Making it happen

Over the last few weeks, we’ve looked over the recommendations of the Commission for Africa on governance, peace building, trade, social policy and aid. In the final chapter of their report, the Commission outlines the other, wider changes to the process of international governance, and the attitudes of rich-country governments, that are needed to “make […]

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