Liz Stratman is a senior journalism student at the University of Missouri–Columbia. She moved to Columbia in 2010 from a small town in Nebraska to pursue her magazine journalism career at the best J-School in the area. In her free time, Liz enjoys teaching free dance classes to elementary school students and watching movies with her cuddly kitten Milly. After graduation in May, she hopes to become an editor at a well-known food and wine, fitness or lifestyle magazine.
(Image Source) Dambisa Moyo in Dead Aid discusses how Africa’s elected officials and/or policymakers are responsible for offering opinions on what should be done with aid. She says, however, this responsibility has been left to musicians who live outside of Africa. Moyo compares this to how a critic of the aid model said: “my voice […]
“Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.” — Dambisa Moyo (Image Source) According to Dambisa Moyo in Dead Aid, there are four alternative sources of funding for African economies. African governments should: follow emerging Asian markets. This is because they are […]
(Image Source) If you go back in African history, you can see a divide of two classes of people. There’s the “hippo generation” and the “cheetah generation.” In Chapter 7 of Emerging Africa – How 17 Countries are Leading the Way, Steve Radelet talks about a new generation of leaders. Ghanaian scholar George Ayittey has begun to […]
The World Bank, headquartered in Washington, D.C., was established in 1944 and currently has more than 10,000 employees in more than 120 office around the world. They are a source of both technical and financial assistance to developing countries. Unlike what you would think of as a normal bank, the World Bank promotes partnership in […]
According to Chapter 1 in the MDG UN Report: Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of goals that address extreme poverty from hunger and disease to exclusion, as well as promote gender equality, environmental sustainability and education. The targets also serve as basic […]
By Liz Stratman and Devin Bailey According to the Congressional Research Service, Senegal is viewed by the United States as an African democratic leader who is “an anchor of regional stability,” as well as “a partner in addressing developmental challenges and combating transnational security threats.” Despite struggles with poverty and a low-level separatist insurgency in […]
After doing extensive research on the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and poverty level in Chad, I came to find that there are a lot of different estimations and data sets. For the sake of consistency, all of the data I am about to discuss is from World Bank. According to the site, in 2012, the […]
(Photo from Ted.com) In Jacqueline Novogratz’s TED talks she makes a point of defining poverty, beginning by saying “four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.” Society is referring to these people as people in poverty, “the poor.” She gives an example from where she works in Karachi and Nairobi where […]
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