(January 27, 2011) In Geneva on Wednesday, Stephen Harper predicted that the $40-billion United Nations initiative on maternal care will create a “wave of hope” across the developing world. No one doubts that hope is desperately needed. In Canada, a woman’s lifetime risk of dying in pregnancy or childbirth is one in 5,600. In Niger, it’s one in 16.
The merry-go round of aid: Foreign aid goes in and comes out in developing countries flush with cash
(Dececember 30, 2010) Brady Yauch writes that a recent World Bank program in India has reignited the debate on when “developing” countries should stand on their own two feet.
China to Lend Africa $10 Billion
(November 9, 2009) China’s prime minister said his country will give $10 billion in loans to African countries without any political strings attached.
It’s tyranny stupid!
(June 6, 2005) There’s a puzzling idea doing the rounds on Africa. It occasionally surfaces in Tony Blair’s speeches as Britain gears up for a G8 summit at which he will be pushing for debt write-off and a doubling in aid to African countries.
Forget forgiveness: make the looters pay
(May 24, 2005) An odious debts challenge is one way African governments can hold both Western creditors and corrupt African officials to account.
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