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| Todd Moss |
| Todd Moss is vice president for programs and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. |
| Andrea Hart |
| Andrea Hart is a senior journalism and Latin American studies major at Northwestern University. She joined the GPI Global Internship for summer 2009. |
| Assessing Progress in Africa toward the MDGs |
| 09/23/10 | |
| There are indicators of hope in Africa with a 50 percent decrease in malaria in 15 countries and nine countries reaching 90 percent access to safe drinking water, yet this report also stresses Africa's struggle to meet health targets. | |
| Lucille Pilling |
| Dr. Lucille B. Pilling is a corporate social responsibility strategist with expertise in corporate sustainability and global public health. |
| Liberation Debt in the New South Africa |
| Mikaela Bradbury | 05/06/09 |
| Loyalty to the ANC remains strong, despite corruption charges that surrounded presidential candidate Jacob Zuma until recently and cynicism over what the party has been able to deliver. Will the ANC "liberation debt" eventually pay a good governance dividend? | |
| Lance Taylor |
| Lance Taylor is the Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development and Director of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School University. |
| Dead Aid |
| Dambisa Moyo, Joanne Myers | 04/13/09 |
| Africa has received more than $1 trillion in development-related aid over the past 50 years. Has it improved Africans' lives? No, says Dambisa Moyo in this Public Affairs Program. In fact, aid has made the situation much worse. | |
| Diplomatically Quiet on Zimbabwe |
| Matthew Hennessey, Patrick Bond | 06/11/08 |
| Matthew Hennessey interviews Patrick Bond, director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, on post-election unrest in Zimbabwe and the displeasure of South Africans at their government's policy toward Mugabe. | |
| Market and Community Approaches to Food Crisis |
| Jon Templeman | 05/23/08 |
| The food crisis has tempted governments to enact export bans and pull other market levers, but helping small-scale farmers might be a better long-term target for food stability. | |
| Protecting Zimbabwe |
| Desmond Tutu, Aryeh Neier | 05/13/08 |
| The African Union should send an investigative mission to Zimbabwe to determine what may be required to carry out the internationally accepted responsibility to protect. | |
| Building a Foundation of Trust |
| David Shinn, Joshua Eisenman | 04/24/08 |
| China's presence in Africa is often viewed as part of the scramble for resources, but it also opens the door to U.S.-China cooperation on energy, security, corruption, and health. | |
| Whither Africa's "Frontier Markets"? |
| Ian Bremmer | 04/14/08 |
| Recent growth in sub-Saharan Africa is threatened by instability in the region's pillar countries and the risk of evaporating remittances during a global slowdown. | |
| Watching the Government Watch You |
| Abigail Paris | 03/18/08 |
| A growing movement is using the Internet to expose government problems and protect rights and privacy. | |
| An Inflation Reality Check |
| Kenneth Rogoff | 03/14/08 |
| If central bankers think that today's inflation is simply the product of short-term resource scarcities as opposed to lax monetary policy, they are mistaken. | |
| Liberalization of Trade in Health Services |
| 02/05/08 | |
| The right to health is bestowed on human beings through national constitutions and various international legal instruments that have been signed and ratified by many, if not all, governments of the world. Inherent herein is the right to access basic health services; which imposes an obligation on states to ensure that these services are universally accessible to all their constituents. | |
| Exploring the Scope for Introducing Sin Tax to Finance a Universally Accessible National Health Insurance in Zimbabwe |
| 11/21/07 | |
| Freckson Tineyi Ropi outlines a multi-stakeholder research project that seeks to explore the means with which the sustainable financing of the National Health Insurance can be extended to all Zimbabweans through a "sin tax." | |
| Promised Land in Zimbabwe and Venezuela |
| Alexandra Reihing | 06/11/07 |
| Land reform projects are designed to empower the poorest elements of society, but often go awry when implemented for political purposes. The negative impacts on agricultural output and soaring inflation in Zimbabwe and Venezuela highlight the difficulty of making such postcolonial repairs. | |
| Patents, Compulsory License and Access to Medicines: Some Recent Experiences |
| Martin Khor | 05/25/07 |
| Access to medicines has emerged as a major public health issue, especially with the impact of patents on the prices of drugs. Developing countries can take advantage of flexibilities in the WTO Trade-related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement, such as compulsory licensing. To do so they must now establish appropriate provisions in their national patent legislation. | |
| China, the Unlikely Human Rights Champion |
| Stephanie T. Kleine-Ahlbrandt, Andrew Small | 02/14/07 |
| The most recent phase of China's foreign policy transformation has been building for several months. It has its roots in two sources: the country's growing sensitivity to opprobrium over its international behavior, and an increasingly sharp reassessment of its political interests, which are looking more like those of a great power rather than a developing country struggling to protect its sovereignty. | |
| The China Factor in African Ethics and Human Rights |
| David Shinn | 12/08/06 |
| Former Ambassador to Ethiopia David Shinn discusses the ethics of China's growing investment in Africa. He specifically covers resource extraction, human rights, arms trade, environmental policy, textiles, Darfur, and the cultural factors influencing trade between China and Africa. | |
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