Archive for June, 2007
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Sachs-obsessed
We are, it seems. As you may have noticed the author of The End of Poverty, Director of the Earth Institute and all-round celebrity economist recently served as the BBCs’ 2007 Reith lecturer. These annual lectures are the jewel in the crown of the beeb’s public-service current affairs broadcasting, so it’s quite a big deal. [...]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
African history in ten *seconds*!
We live in a fast-paced, media-driven society. Information must be simple, clear, and colourful, or it just gets missed. In my quest to bring you ever-closer to the truth about African development, this is a lesson I never cease learning.
For those of you who found my chart summarising African history since independence too complicated, my [...]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2007
Sachs on Africa: on the front line
Or “on the ground”, to use Professor Sachs‘ own choice of cliche. Having sketched out human economic history, the causes of poverty and his own history of economic fiddling, the director of the Earth Institute and author of The End of Poverty devotes its final few chapters to a detailed analysis of the steps [...]
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Thursday, June 7th, 2007
More criticisms of the Africa Commission
The report of the Commission for Africa, summarised here and more heavily here, is an ambitious and sophisticated analysis of the problems plaguing Africa and the steps needed to solve them. But it isn’t without critics. Last time, I looked at those who criticised the Commission for being too conservative in its calls for Western [...]
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Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
Ghana: another perspective
The BBC World Service recently broadcast a two-part documentary about Ghana’s independence and history since, and it offers a nice intro to follow up on the previous post. It’s expired from the “listen again” function, but you can listen to it here by clicking the arrows below or right-clicking the links.
Episode 1:
Episode 2:
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
Have a look around
I’ve made a few, subtle, ultra-geeky changes to the navigation of the website to make it easier to find your way around. When you’re looking at a tag, a category, or a date archive, you should now see a list of posts with introductory excerpts rather than all of each. That should make it easier [...]
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