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Direct Aid

Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Africa

The effectiveness of aid to poorer countries has come into question, and the Obama administration is indicating that it wants to promote a new model. Carol Adelman, director of the Center for Global Prosperity at the Hudson Institute, looks at the role of private philanthropy and remittances in third-world development.


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  • [1] superf88 May 19, 2009 - 10:50AM

    Slightly related to this topic may I put on listeners' radar a book I just started reading,

    The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS


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