In the News: (In)equality and Ebola
posted by Tanya Schwarz
What is the role of economic (in)equality in local responses to Ebola? What are the economic consequences of the Ebola outbreak? Raymond Gilpin tackles these and other […]
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The ethics of conditional cash transfers
The CIHA Blog has developed a partnership with Pambazuka News, which is produced and published by Fahamu, based in Oxford, Dakar, and Nairobi. This piece was originally posted […]
In the News: The Aid and Development Debate Redux
The CIHA Blog previously posted about Nina Monk‘s new book, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty. A few months later, William Easterly, a professor […]
In the News: What Will Help Africa Rise?
The economic and demographic prowess of Africa alone may not necessarily be the turnaround strategy for the continent, as Jay Naidoo argues in the article ‘Africa Rising? Whose Africa?‘ […]
In the News: Charity, Condition-Free
A previous In the News post featured a New York Times article about a charity that gives money directly to the recipients with no strings attached. The authors […]
In the News: Dependency and Development
Two recent articles point out how aid recipients are often more in tune with their needs and their cultural and political contexts than the development organization might be. The New […]
In the News: “Modern” Africa
“How Africa’s New Urban Centers are Shifting Its Old Colonial Boundaries”
In The Atlantic, Howard W. French explores the expansion of Lagos, Nigeria, toward Accra, Ghana, all the way to […]
In the News: Combating Poverty and Hunger
Two articles in The Guardian this week focused on poverty and hunger in Africa and ways that African leaders should combat them. Two complementary articles push for understanding root causes […]
In the News: Land Reform in South Africa
“Land Reform in South Africa: Seeds of Change”
The Economist reports here that 50 percent of land reform projects in South Africa have failed, despite […]