Tag: aid
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Africa For Norway: Viral Video Pokes Fun At Stereotypes In Aid Efforts
NPR: Africa For Norway: Viral Video Pokes Fun At Stereotypes In Aid Efforts A group of South African students and an aid agency in Norway are challenging the stereotypical image of Africa as a continent riddled with conflict, disease, corruption, poverty, and brutal dictatorships needing rescue from developed nations. … … The video is humorous,…
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Bono, Capitalism, and Foreign Aid
Forbes had an interesting article about Bono, Bono's 'Humbling' Realizations About Aid, Capitalism And Nerds last week. Bono has learned much about music over more than three decades with U2. But alongside that has been a lifelong lesson in campaigning — the activist for poverty reduction in Africa spoke frankly on Friday about how his views…
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Referring Jesus
Urban Perspectives: Referring Jesus Bob Lupton Your phone rings. It’s the receptionist at the front desk. She says there is a lady there who is asking for food. You glance out your office window and observe an unfamiliar car parked in the church parking lot. A man is behind the wheel. You assume it is…
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Fix aid delivery to India’s poor
Christian Science Monitor: Fix aid delivery to India's poor This article summarizes a new World Bank study highlighting the challenges posed by corrupt officials and middle men in targeting poverty reduction aid to the poor in India. To quote the NY Times, "The World Bank on Wednesday recommended a radical overhaul of India’s social programs.…
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More Than 1 Billion People Are Hungry in the World
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Foreign Policy: More Than 1 Billion People Are Hungry in the World An absolutely brilliant article. I've excerpted it at length because it is such a long article, but I highly recommend reading it. It highlights well the challenge of applying simplistic models (whether "more aid" or "more markets") of economic development. But what if…
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Aid groups using cellphones to reach the world’s poor
Washington Post: Aid groups using cellphones to reach the world's poor SEATTLE – For the world's poorest, cellphone technology carries opportunity, aid groups say, as text messages and other mobile applications have created a new platform to reach the most remote farms and crowded urban slums of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The Grameen Foundation,…
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Grass-roots food initiative in Africa serves Clinton’s goals
Christian Science Monitor: Grass-roots food initiative in Africa serves Clinton's goals Group helps to match African farmers, especially women, with on-the-ground experts and better technology. Washington – As she continues her seven-country tour through sub-Saharan Africa, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will focus on the $20 billion food security and agricultural development initiatives that…
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MEC: Solutions
Chapter 30 in Everything Must Change is titled "Organized Religions or Religion Organizing the Common Good?" He identifies seven categories of development economics. Summarizing: Trade First, we have to live within environmental limits. Second, integrate free trade with fair trade. Third, we need to make it easier for people to grow small businesses. This will…
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China takes up civic work in Africa
Christian Science Monitor: China takes up civic work in Africa Some of the words that typically come to mind in association with the budding China-Africa relationship are "trade," "raw materials," and "cheap goods." "Weapons," sometimes pops up, "neocolonialism" has its takers, too. "Socially responsible," however, does not typically make the Top 10 list. But increasingly,…
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Chinese activists looking to Africa
Christian Science Monitor: Chinese activists looking to Africa As its economic role in Africa expands, China's budding civil society takes cautious steps to hold its government to account. Shanghai, China – Amos Kimunya could hardly have been blunter. As the annual meeting of the African Development Bank (AfDA) here last week celebrated China's booming aid…