Dambisa Moyo. DEAD AID: why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2009. Pp. 188. $24.00. ISBN-13: 978-0-374-13956-8.
“The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth,” Dambisa Moyo writes in her polemic. Pop stars like Bono and Bob Geldof [...]
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Helene Cooper tells us pre-revolutionary Liberian society rivaled Victorian England when it came to matters of social correctness, as she describes a privileged 1970’s childhood at her family’s main residence in Liberia, a twenty-two room behemoth over-looking the Atlantic, called Sugar Beach. Cooper is a direct descendant of the freed American slaves whom sailed [...]
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Crude World: the Violent Twilight of Oil
The thought that our world may currently be at peak oil production is an idea widely debated. Irrespective of political and social belief systems, mathematically and pragmatically, a time of peak oil will certainly happen. Known quantities of existing mineral deposits are considered national secrets to oil producing [...]
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