Posts About Development

Budget Surplus With Poverty?

South Africa is enjoying the first budget surplus in a generation, and the first ever in recorded African history. Should a county have a budget surplus and low budget deficits, low inflation, no debts etc. in a country where you...


Africa Welcomes Chinese Aid

Africa needs enormous infrastructual investments in excess of $20 billion per year for the next decade. The West has been reluctant to provide this money. Without it, development and poverty reduction cannot happen. China should be allowed to fill the gap.


Good Jobs Fix Bad Politics

Petty politics will eventually take care of itself. Violence will subside, and in its place we will see Africans shopping for Chinese products in Khartoum’s new Wal-Mart.


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