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Gates, Rockefeller Intend to Re-create Green Revolution for Africa
UPDATE: Peter Timmer of the Center for Global Development is skeptical about the program. The Washington Post reports this morning that the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations will partner to jump-start an African Green Revolution: The Africa program will begin with a relatively small Gates...
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Making Globalization Work for Women: What is the Role of the Development Community?
James Ferguson?s critique of the development paradigm in The Anti-politics Machine focuses on work international agencies were doing in LeSotho to increase family incomes and create a larger cattle market. If I remember the book correctly, the scheme fails due in part to the assumption that...
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Corruption and the Private Sector
This month’s issue of Development Outreach ? a World Bank Institute magazine ? focuses on the private sector’s role in stemming corruption. Articles range from general overviews of related issues to academic discussions of corruption measurement to specific reports from the field,...
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