All Posts Tagged With: "Africa"

Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa

The escalating price of oil, the world’s growing population, and its increasing demand for food have all received blame for rising worldwide food prices. What is often overlooked is that a significant portion of the world’s population is unable to feed itself—because of politics. That is the greater, more frightening problem.
Today much of Africa remains [...]

2Apr2009 | Daniel Sacks | 1 comment | Continued

Somalia: Failed State, Economic Success?

By most measures Somalia has improved living standards faster than the average sub-Saharan African country since the government of Siad Barre collapsed in the early 1990s.

1Apr2009 | Benjamin Powell | 0 comments | Continued

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

By Jeffrey D. Sachs Reviewed by Jude Blanchette

1Mar2007 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Aid, Trade, and Institutional Quality in Africa

Joshua Hall is pursuing his Ph.D. in economics at West Virginia University. Matthew Hisrich is a senior policy fellow with the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy in Kansas.
Screenwriter Richard Curtis received a great deal of attention for his 2005 movie The Girl in the Café. The film was the big-screen component of the Live [...]

1Jan2007 | Joshua C. Hall and Matthew His | 0 comments | Continued