Our group is centering our E-book around five different African, Sub-saharan countries and the cultural, economical, political and social challenges that they are facing. Now, this isn’t news for anyone who has been researching as much as we have been researching for the entirety of this class. From all of the different viewpoints of Sach’s […]
According to an article from The Economist from October 2010, South Africa was ranked fourth out of 53 African countries for its record on women’s rights. It comes in sixth–out of 134 countries, on the World Economic Forum’s “gender gap index.” Also, on the UNDP’s “gender empowerment measure” it does well, being placed 26th out of 182 countries. […]
In Uganda: MEMPROW http://www.memprow.org/ Mentoring and Empowerment Programme for Young Women (MEMPROW) is a capacity building programme for self empowerment of young women (14-25 years), focusing on increasing leadership capacities and social survival and analytical skills. It is also a programme for creating strong networks of intergenerational partnerships, providing continuous peer learning and mentorship for […]
Every victory, no matter how small, is indeed a victory. However, small victories lose their sweetness after awhile. After decades of innovations, development schemes, variations of aid, and pressures on infrastructure, the most sub-sahara Africa can boast about is even managing to stay afloat, much less sail. Small-scale endeavors, such of that from Grameen Bank, […]
In 2011, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations published “Women- Key to Food Security,” which addressed the marginalization of women in the rural and farming work forces of third world, developing and impoverished nations. According to FAO, if women had the same access to agricultural resources as men, 20-30 percent more food […]
Foreign direct investment is when a company located in one country invests directly into production in another country either by buying a company in the foreign country or by expanding operations of an existing business in that country. Is sounds like a really great thing, but there must be some reason that not everyone is […]
In chapter 15 of Jeffrey Sachs’ The End of Poverty, Sachs addresses one of the most pressing questions that presents itself while addressing global poverty and it’s potential solutions. Aid is needed, so who will give the aid? The people who have the money. But if the people who have money give it away, then they will […]
At the beginning of chapter fourteen in his book “The End of Poverty,” in which Jeffrey Sachs proposes his idea of ending global poverty by 2025, he quotes an old Soviet worker’s joke that goes: “We pretend to work and you pretend to pay us!” Sachs argues that this is the state that aiding rich […]
When author Dambisa Moyo was quoted as saying,”My voice can’t compete with an electric guitar,” she was not referring to a battle of the bands. In Western aid culture, we are known for getting our most famous celebrities, high brow actors and legendary rockstars involved in the money-raising and awareness heightening process. But the fact […]
Dead Aid, written by African author Dambisa Moyo, is a clearly a labor of love that Moyo has entailed that details the state of aid in Africa and exactly why the system that is running that aid is failing African countries in need. Moyo explains the different types of aid (humanitarian/emergency aid, systematic aid, charity […]
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