Archive for May, 2007
Friday, May 25th, 2007
Ghana: 50 turbulent years
You won’t have missed all the fuss in the media a few weeks ago about the fiftieth anniversary of the independence of Ghana.
Following on from our recent dash through African history since independence, I thought it would be a good time to focus briefly on Ghana for a slightly more detailed look. Ghana was not [...]
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Monday, May 7th, 2007
Criticisms of the Commission for Africa
The report of the Commission for Africa, the brain trust of African and other leaders, economists and thinkers set up by Tony Blair, became one of the highest-profile “packages” of solutions for African put forward in 2005, during the Make Poverty History campaign in the leadup to the G8 summit in Gleneagles. We’ve summarised its [...]
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Sachs on the MDGs and 9/11
Last time, we saw Jeffrey Sachs discussing Africa’s tremendous burden of disease and its relationship to the continent’s poverty and slow economic growth. Next, Sachs turned his attention to the rest of Africa’s problems, and to broader lobbying for more international action on poverty. But a small matter of a terrorist attack got in the [...]
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
At last! Sachs on Africa
We’ve followed Jeffrey Sachs through his book The End of Poverty as he outlines his basic theories of economic growth and developmental economics, as he recounts his personal experience in Bolivia, Poland and Russia, and as he offers his view on the economic booms in China and India. Finally, in the books’ tenth chapter, he [...]
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Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Tantric Sachs*
For our purposes, the interest of Jeffrey Sachs‘ book The End of Poverty is what it has to say about Africa. However, he first turns his attentions to the world’s biggest developing countries, China and India.
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Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Sachs on China
Jeffrey Sachs‘ book The End of Poverty is as much autobiography as pop-economics. Last time, we looked over the sections where he discusses his work advising Bolivia, Poland and Russia on the management of their economies, and their transition towards various types of socialism to liberalised markets. Next, he turns his attention to the world’s [...]
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