Archive for August, 2007
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Criticisms of the Millennium Villages: some thoughts
Earlier, we looked at some of the criticisms of Jeffrey Sachs‘ Millennium Villages Project. Now, let’s see if they stand up.
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
African history in ten seconds: New and improved!
This is becoming a wonderful, ever-growing saga, like The Land Before Time, although I think that ended after episode five, or Rocky, which I suppose will only end with Sylvester Stallone’s death. Having put together a spreadsheet detailing the history of African governance since independence, my friend John kindly put together a chart summarising the […]
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Trouble in the village?
Last time - what seems like months ago, apologies for the delay - we looked at Jeffrey Sachs‘ Millennium Villages, a set of 12 village-clusters across Africa where extensive aid is funding targeted packages of interventions in health, education and agriculture. Sachs believes that the programme can see villages progress from heavy reliance on […]
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