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Online Discussion on the G8 Summit and International Aid, Hosted by The Washington Post
World leaders gathered in Scotland this week for the G-8 summit arediscussing an increase in international aid as a means of reducingpoverty and disease in Africa. British Prime Minister Tony Blairhas been encouraging other G-8 nations to double monetary aid to thecontinent by 2010,...
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Live from Edinburgh 3
We just finished a “Breakfast Business Discussion” at the Raising Living Standards Conference in Edinburgh.? What struck me most was the consensus set of conclusions and suggestions which characterized seven separate table discussions.? At each table were senior business execs,...
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Stale Focus
The Economist: HelpingAfrica Help Itself, The$25 Billion Question, DoingBusiness in AfricaIn light of the G8 summit, The Economist published several articlesrelated to foreign aid to Africa in this week’s edition.One, HelpingAfrica Help Itself, advocates foreign aid on...
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Live from Edinburgh 2
The conference “Raising Living Standards in Africa: A Role for the G8” began this afternoon in Edinburgh.? The former president of Mozambique, Joaquim Chissano, opened the event.? Mozambique is considered among the ’success stories’ of the effectiveness of aid in recent days.?...
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Companies in BOP markets will be forced into being ethical
Any long-term development plan of a multinational corporation is going to eventually turn to the market at the bottom of the pyramid. How long it will take for this approach to business to become popular is still to be determined, but with increasing globalization and emphasis on developing...
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Report from the G8 Edinburgh
Having been in the UK for the past couple of days, and not reading the American press, I don’t know how it is reporting on the events leading up to the G8 meeting scheduled to start July 6 a few miles from here, but I can tell you that it’s big news here.? A peaceful march of more than 250,000...
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A Dissenter Among Dissenters
In the spirit of the G8 protests, an activist that my friend saw in Bostonlast week carried a sign that said ’Abolish Poverty.’ No explanation on how todo it. Just a call to action.That sign best describes the G8 protests that I saw in Edinburgh, UK last Saturday. BobGeldorf...
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It’s expensive to be poor — but remittance costs are coming down
I’ve been attending a conference -- the International Forum on Remittances -- sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank here in Washington for the past several days. The IADB has been very active in analyzing remittance flows, and just put up a new website on the subject at...
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