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14 Jan 09

Funeral Orations as Indicators of what a Good Life Ought to Be

The Igbo of South-East Nigeria were investigated. The good life was measured by the extent to which duties and obligations were discharged in the provision of social amenities, help to educate members of the community and so on. What would ordinarily be r

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The Economic Lives of the Poor (PDF)

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo (2006). “The Economic Lives of the Poor,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21(1), 141-167

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African Growth Performance 1960-2000 (PDF)

Benno Ndulu and Stephen O’Connell (2008). “Policy Plus: African Growth Performance 1960-2000,” in The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960-2000. B. J. Ndulu, S. A. O’Connell, R. H. Bates, P. Collier and C. Soludo.

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23 Mar 08

BBC NEWS | UK | Education | See-saw to power African schools

The device works by transferring the power, created by a child moving up and down on it, to an electricity storage unit via an underground cable.

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25 Jan 08

Reason Magazine - Ending Global Apartheid

if the OECD countries were to allow just a 3% rise of their labor forces through immigration, the gains to citizens of poor countries would be $230 billion more than the developed world currently allocates to foreign aid for poor countries.

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09 Jan 08

The Coming Revolution in Africa

G. Pascal Zachary teaches journalism at Stanford University and is finishing a book on Africa for Scribner.

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Sub-Saharan Africa: the population emergency

No country should therefore see its population decrease owing simply to the Aids epidemic.

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07 Jan 08

Low IQs are Africa's curse, says lecturer | UK News | The Observer

Satoshi Kanazawa is now accused of reviving the politics of eugenics by publishing the research which concludes that low IQ levels, rather than poverty and disease, are the reason why life expectancy is low and infant mortality high

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09 Dec 07

How slave trade patterns explain African underdevelopment | 3quarksdaily

Nathan Nunn: Slavery, Institutional Development, and Long-Run Growth in Africa, 1400-2000

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16 Sep 07

The Memory Bank 3.0 » Blog Archive » Africa on my mind

I want you to wake up from a bad dream, in which Africa distracts you from confronting your own failures. The West is losing its grip on the world it made and there will be a time soon when Africans will feel sorry for you. Actually, they already do

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14 Jun 07

Thomas P.M. Barnett: The Americans Have Landed (Esquire, 2007)

America is going to have an Africa Command for the same reason people buy real estate -- it's a good investment. Too many large, hostile powers surround Central Asia for the radical jihadists to expand there

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