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Fistula, and maternal mortality
The Disease Control Priorities Project has a striking feature article about fistula and maternal mortality ……
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Why has the price of teff trebled?
I’ve been puzzling for a while about why food prices are rising here in Ethiopia. Teff,…
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The global development finance non-system
Helmut Reisen points out that the global development finance system is dysfunctional: A prerequisite for effective…
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Bill Clinton in Ethiopia
In a slightly whimsical account of Bill Clinton’s trip to Ethiopia in The Guardian, we find…
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Aid to Ethiopia (Le Monde)
In Le Monde, David Martin has a rather intelligent piece about aid to Ethiopia: Major operators…
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Views about fertility in Amber
We went recently to the village of Amber, about 6 hours north of Addis Ababa, to…
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Surowiecki understates the case against IP
The ever-excellent James Surowiecki, writes in The New Yorker The point isn’t that private property is…
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More news, some of it good, via Google
Google has launched Google News in English for Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe,Namibia, Ghana, Uganda and…
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Serious brain looking at the brain drain
Michael Clemens at the Center for Global Development is one of the smartest (and nicest) people…
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Malthus now writing in the LA Times
The Los Angeles Times reckons it knows the causes of Ethiopia’s famines: Simply put, the nation,…
