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Bangladesh’s Bright Future

Posted on November 17th, 2011 by
Bangladesh’s Bright Future

Once labelled a basket case for international development, Bangladesh “has turned things around in a spectacular way,” announced LSE professor David Lewis at Cambridge University International Development’s event last Friday. Drawing upon the work in his new book, Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society, Prof. Lewis gave a crash course on the country he believed the international community should be more interested in. Poor, overpopulated and environmentally vulnerable, Bangladesh (more...)

Impact of Aid in Africa: Reflections on the Debate

Posted on November 7th, 2011 by
Impact of Aid in Africa: Reflections on the Debate

Andrew Mwenda, speaking at TED Global 2007 in Arusha, on African aid. Photograph: Andrew Heavens for TED.com
In gauging the net impact foreign aid has had in Africa, speakers at Cambridge Union Society reframed the debate as the antithesis of aid-fuelled statism and home-grown entrepreneurship. By concentrating capital in government hands, foreign aid was said to crowd out the domestic private sector: “We don’t need aid, we have so many entrepreneurs, creative people,” Andrew Mwenda (more...)