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May 09, 2008
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Pandiaspora
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"...Pandiaspora encourages Nigerians in the Diaspora to volunteer their skills to work on short term medical mission projects and to consider returning home to contribute to longer term sustainable development...their mission is the principle of direct intervention - helping people and communities to attain better health and well-being and to support better education for vulnerable school-aged
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Achieving Self-Sufficiency in Rice Production-Uganda
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Uganda proves that food self-sufficiency can be realized with the right sets of policies.G. Pascal Zachary reports in Foreign Policy: The country’s rice output has risen 2½ times since 2004, according to the Ministry of Trade. Rice production is expected to reach an astonishing 180,000 metric tons this year, up from 135,000 in 2006 and 102,000 in 2005. Consumption of imported rice, meanwhile,
May 07, 2008
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Zimbabwe and Land Reform
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Jeremy Cronin writes in Pambazuka News: "We are told, for instance, that ‘land reform’(in Zimbabwe) did not succeed because the British failed to meet their financial obligations as agreed in the Lancaster House negotiations. But what kind of heroic anti-imperialist liberation movement is this? Can you imagine the Cubans arguing two decades after their revolutionary breakthrough that they had not
May 06, 2008
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Mwenda on Traditional Aid
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Recently detained Andrew Mwenda, addresses the Progressive party of Norway on Traditional Aid
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Gordon Brown Deemphasizes Aid-Good news
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The British PM Gordon Brown, seems to have changed his position on Aid.In a speech on international development he stated that: Some argue that it is the presence of big international corporations that is the cause of the problems in developing countries, but I disagree. Indeed, I believe it is the absence of business - and not the presence of business - that blights the lives of poor people,
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Tiwai African Health & Fitness Village
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The award winning Tiwai African Health & Fitness Village is modern health and fitness center built around the principles and practices of West African ethnomedicine and located near the high biodiversity Tiwai Island Gola Forest. Their aim ...is to protect the high biodiversity environments of West Africa by making them relevant to sustainable livelihood activities of the people who live in or
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Africa's innovations systems cannot create wealth
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Judi W. Wakhungu writes in Africa Science News about the shortcomings that are leading to a dearth of innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Institutional inefficiency is historical and in SSA these have been broadly into three systemic categories-institutional inertia, organsational ineffectiveness and institutional gaps. Institutional inertia is multi-faceted and does not necessarily mean that an
May 05, 2008
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Makerere University Private Sector Forum
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Continuing our focus on academia-industry linkages we take a look at the Makerere University Private Sector Forum. They describe themselves: As a new vehicle for promoting value addition to the University products in addressing the Private Sector needs. It will serve as a central 'hub' for practical support and information dissemination, encourage and facilitate the University Departments by
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Portfolio Investing Solely in African Markets
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Ryan Shen-Hoover writing in the Cheetah Index asks the question: Would a portfolio consisting of equal allocations to each of these 10 African markets be exposed to unacceptable levels of risk? To find out, I back-tested such a portfolio and compared it to the S&P500 and EEM using the most recent 16 months of returns. The S&P500 returned an average of –0.04% per month with a 3.42% standard

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