
This is from The Economist: WHICH has provided a better return in recent decades: America’s stockmarket or education? The latter, according to a research review by George Psacharopoulos and Har...
This is from the Economist: The first of two studies found that TOMS was not wrecking local markets. On average, for every 20 pairs of shoes donated, people bought just one fewer pair locally—a...
Not really. At least according to this piece from the Economist. The problem has always been getting the water to the people. Too bad good old-fashioned water and sanitation cannot be leapfrogged...
This is from the Economist: In 2014 a respected former central-bank governor lost his job after claiming that $20 billion had been stolen. But this captures only a small share of the damage done ...
https://kenopalo.com/2016/02/03/on-the-high-cost-of-corruption-in-nigeria/
This is a story about Kenya building the first new railroad since the British built the old one more than a century ago. The new line goes through a National Park. A watchman was attacked by a c...
https://kenopalo.com/2015/03/05/how-to-write-about-africa-in-one-picture/
The Economist reports: “WHERE do the world’s poor live? The obvious answer: in poor countries. But in a recent series of articles Andy Sumner of Britain’s Institute of Development Studies s...
The BBC reports: Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has died at the age of 57, state media say, after weeks of illness. A government spokesman said Mr Meles had died in a hospital abroad – ...
https://kenopalo.com/2012/08/20/meles-zenawi-prime-minister-of-ethiopia-is-dead-at-57/
The Economist raises an interesting question regarding approaches to “development,” claiming that the recent race for the World Bank presidency represented a contest between two broad approac...
The Economist has joined a string of internet commentators in endorsing Nigerian Minister of Finance to become the next president of the World Bank. Contrasted against the resume of Obama’s cho...
Yet Rwanda has one huge advantage: the rule of law. No African country has done more to curb corruption. Ministers have been jailed for it. Transparency International, a watchdog, reckons Rwanda ...
https://kenopalo.com/2012/03/02/africas-singapore-or-uganda-waiting-to-happen/