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One Recent Study: “African Poverty is Falling…Much Faster than You Think!”
A recent study by Maxim Pinkovskiy of M.I.T. and Xavier Sala-i-Martin of Columbia: Our results show that the conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. In fact, since 1995,...
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“In Southern Sudan, for the money”
“In Southern Sudan for the Money” JUBA, Sudan, April 9 (Reuters) by Ed Cropley – The only thing that’s cheap in southern Sudan is life. One of the world’s poorest regions, where four out of five people...
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“Why 300 million more people are suddenly poor”–release of “Multidimensional...
Why 300 million more people are suddenly poor, by Jina Moore at the Christian Science Monitor: Kigali, Rwanda In November, 300 million more people around the world were suddenly poor – on paper, at...
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The Kenya Lobby, Corruption, and Hunger
Here is a link from the newly published digest of 2009 foreign lobbyist disclosure filings for Kenya from ProPublica and the Sunlight Foundations. Assume some focus this year is on the MCC vote coming...
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IRIN Africa | KENYA: “Perfect storm” brewing among urban poor
IRIN Africa | KENYA: “Perfect storm” brewing among urban poor | Kenya | Children | East African Food Crisis | Economy | Food Security | Urban Risk.
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Is Washington, DC a logical place from which to fight global poverty? (Updated)
I thank those of you who have been reading some of my older posts while I have been primarily away from the blog the past few weeks. Let me take time now to throw out a couple of “macro” observations...
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The U.S. “official” infatuation with Kenya, in numbers
I’ve spent some time looking at “Official Development Assistance” (“ODA”) numbers for Africa to test my perception that the U.S. seems, for some reason that is hard to pin down, to give an inordinate...
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“My Turn in the South—a memoir of adopting Mississippi from the ‘90s to the...
A twitter friend from the the Boston-New York-Philly-DC metroplex asked yesterday about Mississippi in the context of “development”. From my perspective the Mississippi Delta and Appalachia have always...
View ArticleMust reads on Kenya
Kenya’s dangerous path toward authoritarianism by Neha Wadekar in The New Yorker. Kenyatta’s grand plan to silence Kenya’s free press by George Ogola in African Arguments. This is how you capture the...
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New Human Development Index ratings: most high and middle performers in SSA...
Here are the Sub-Saharan African countries with a Human Development Index in the “High” and “Medium” categories as listed by the recent release for 2017 from the UNDP. Interestingly, Kenya along with...
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Helpful reading on why al-Shabaab has gained support in Kenya – and...
UPDATE April 4: A timely new report came out today on this topic from the International Crisis Group, “The Hidden Cost of al-Shabaab’s Campaign in North-eastern Kenya.” To follow up on my last post...
View ArticleOne Recent Study: “African Poverty is Falling…Much Faster than You Think!”
A recent study by Maxim Pinkovskiy of M.I.T. and Xavier Sala-i-Martin of Columbia: Our results show that the conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. In fact, since 1995,...
View Article“In Southern Sudan, for the money”
“In Southern Sudan for the Money” JUBA, Sudan, April 9 (Reuters) by Ed Cropley – The only thing that’s cheap in southern Sudan is life. One of the world’s poorest regions, where four out of five people...
View Article“Why 300 million more people are suddenly poor”–release of “Multidimensional...
Why 300 million more people are suddenly poor, by Jina Moore at the Christian Science Monitor: Kigali, Rwanda In November, 300 million more people around the world were suddenly poor – on paper, at...
View ArticleThe Kenya Lobby, Corruption, and Hunger
Here is a link from the newly published digest of 2009 foreign lobbyist disclosure filings for Kenya from ProPublica and the Sunlight Foundations. Assume some focus this year is on the MCC vote coming...
View ArticleIRIN Africa | KENYA: “Perfect storm” brewing among urban poor
IRIN Africa | KENYA: “Perfect storm” brewing among urban poor | Kenya | Children | East African Food Crisis | Economy | Food Security | Urban Risk. The post IRIN Africa | KENYA: “Perfect storm” brewing...
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Since the 2007 election debacle, pervasive hunger has continued to grow in...
The population of Kenya has grown roughly 25% since my year “promoting democracy” in 2007-08, from around 40 million to around 50 million. These are loose numbers because they do not reflect anything...
View ArticleUSAID Administrator Mark Green and Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump...
On Wednesday, July 10, Administrator Mark Green of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Ivanka Trump, Advisor to the President, will participate in a discussion co-hosted by USAID...
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UNDP releases 2019 “Multidimensional Poverty Index” (updated)
Updated: For Multidimensional Poverty Index rollout from 2010, see “‘300 million people are suddenly poor”; the Multidimensional Poverty Index and Rwanda“. For the 2019, read the release and related...
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