26 Sep 2008 No Comments
It’s been a historical week in international development as leaders worldwide have ramped up discussions around meeting the 2015 Millennium Development Goals. Increasingly (though not exclusively) Africa-specific concerns, the MDG conversation has generated some significant news over the past few days. Below are links to the buzz: Yesterday’s UN Summit on the 2015 MDGs, a mid-way progress [...]
19 Sep 2008 No Comments
A friend just sent me a link to an article from the BBC on the threat of wasted aid dollars in the developing world. Normally I see articles (and books) on this subject related to how aid dollars have already been wasted. This article, however, warns of the inefficiency of waiting until a crisis occurs [...]
29 Aug 2008 5 Comments
If you’ve been involved in the discussion about poverty and international development in the past few years, you probably know the name Jeffrey Sachs. Sachs is a development economist at Columbia University, advisor to the UN on the Millennium Development Goals, and author of the bestselling work, The End of Poverty. You may or may not [...]
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