Archive for December, 2007
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
UN Millennium Project: Plans to end poverty
The UN Millennium Project, a sort of specially-convened think tank put together by Kofi Annan to report on how the world can meet the Millennium Development Goals, often suggests very similar proposals to its director, Jeffrey Sachs, and his book The End of Poverty. I’m choosing, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to [...]
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
The UN Millennium Project
We’ve looked in detail at Jeffrey Sachs‘ proposals for massive increases in aid to Africa, and developing countries elsewhere, in a bid to end extreme poverty by 2025. We’ve also looked at the Millennium Villages project, Sachs’ bid to prove the effectiveness of aid at a local level. But Sachs isn’t only known for his [...]
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