To the PhDs out there, searching for dissertation inspiration: industrial development — no one knows how to do it, but it’s the most important thing in the world.”
Published July 20, 2011
Category: Development
Published July 19, 2011
Somalia and the F-Word
Here we go, it looks like we can now speak the dreaded f-word. Famine, that is:
“The UN is expected on Wednesday to declare that parts of southern Somalia are now in famine amid the worst drought to hit east Africa in 60 years.
Published July 18, 2011
Famine in the Horn of Africa (Updated)
“Abdio Ali Elmoi clutches her son, Mustapha, whose eyes are dimming. Her face is grooved with grief. She has already lost three children to gaajo, or hunger, a common word around here.
‘I walked all day and all night,’ she whispered, barely able to speak. ‘Where I come from, there is no food.’