Archive for January, 2008
Monday, January 28th, 2008
Millennium Project on Trade
One of the most common arguments you hear against increasing aid to Africa can be summed up in a single slogan: “trade, not aid”. It’s by trading with other countries, the argument goes, that formerly poor countries in Asia have transformed their economies and slashed poverty. Simply supplying more aid might help keep people alive, [...]
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Millennium Project: making aid work better
We’ve seen the recommendations of the UN Millennium Project, the coven of experts led by Jeffrey Sachs tasked with advising the world how to meet the Millennium Development Goals, for the investments and reforms poor countries need to make to meet the goals. But what about rich countries? How does the international system of aid [...]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
UN Millennium Project: Scaling-up
We’ve already looked at how Professor Jeffrey Sachs believes small, proven interventions at local level can be “scaled up” - accompanied, of course, by a matching scale-up of aid to pay for it all. What does his UN assignment, the UN Millennium Project, have to say on the topic?
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
UN Millennium Project: small interventions = big difference
The UN Millennium Report proposes each country prepare a detailed shopping-list of interventions, from education and health to environmental protection, to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. But what kinds of interventions do they have in mind? The report outlines a host of “quick wins” - comparatively cheap, highly effective investments that could be effective in [...]
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