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"In Africa, It's Business as Usual for China" China in Africa: The Real Story My invited commentary on the New York Times " Room for Debate " page today, September 20, 2012. Here was the debate: A Human Rights Watch report recently linked Rwanda to war crimes in Congo, a disturbing mark against a nation that has been held up as an African success story. While Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame , has improved the country's economy and kept it stable in the wake of a brutal civil war, he has also been accused of being repressive and autocratic.  It's not just Rwanda: The late prime minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, was praised by the West, but under his regime, journalism has been a dangerous pursuit . How should an influential country like the United States navigate relationships with authoritarian regimes that have improved living standards in their nations, like Kagame did in Rwanda and Zenawi did in E...

What are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations Around the Developing World? Chris Blattman That's the title of a new review paper by McKenzie and Woodruff. The cynical take would be "not much", but they offer a slightly more nuanced answer. …there is substantial heterogeneity in the length, content, and types of firms participating in the training programs evaluated. Many evaluations suffer from low statistical power, measure impacts only within a year of training, and experience problems with survey attrition and measurement of firm profits and revenues. Over these short time horizons, there are relatively modest impacts of training on survivorship of existing firms, but stronger evidence that training programs help prospective owners launch new businesses more quickly. Most studies find that existing firm owners implement some of the practices taught in training, but the magnitudes of these improvement...

Small Farms' Large Benefits Project Syndicate - A World of Ideas - the highest quality opinion ... By 2050, global food production will have to increase by 60% to meet demand from a growing world population with changing consumption habits. But the challenges that agricultural producers currently face, and the food-price volatility that results from these challenges, will not address themselves. Sent with Reeder  (verzonden vanaf tablet)

The Last Hunger Season SSIR Articles In Bungoma, the main city in western Kenya about an hour's drive from Leonida's shamba , activity was also accelerating in warehouse 10 at the National Cereals and Produce Board. The sun was just coming up on a late February morning, peeking over the grain silos that were the tallest structures in Bungoma. At their base was a row of cavernous, concrete warehouses. In the warehouse at the end of the row, rented by One Acre Fund, Andrew Youn began to scale a mountain of seed bags. He stepped awkwardly from bag to bag, as though he were ascending wobbly stairs. The earthy smell of burlap merged with the dank odor of sweat. Thousands of dust specks twinkled in the rays of sun that streamed through the open warehouse doors. When he reached the summit, Andrew looked down on a conga line of strong-backed men carrying twenty-five- and fifty-kilogram bags on their shoulders. The workers wore an array of rags to prote...

The Eight-Word Mission Statement SSIR Opinion & Analysis Whatever windy drivel they might put forward as a corporate mission statement, mainstream for-profit businesses have a clear, central mission: make money for shareholders. Some do it more sustainably, some are nicer about it, but they're all in the same boat. If they have a bad idea or execute poorly on a good one, they fail in their mission and eventually go out of business. Mission statements in the social sector are often the same kind of word-salad, but there isn't a common raison d'etre. As investors in impact, we—the Mulago Foundation—don't want to wade through a bunch of verbiage about "empowerment," "capacity-building," and "sustainability"—we want to know exactly you're trying to accomplish. We want to cut to the chase, and the tool that works for us is the eight-word mission statement. All we want is this: A verb, a target...