<![CDATA[Sir Bob Geldof, Bono, Jeff Sachs and Bill Easterly Should Lead on the Reform of the Levers of Foreign Assistance]]>

1.0 link 216031 <![CDATA[Sir Bob Geldof, Bono, Jeff Sachs and Bill Easterly Should Lead on the Reform of the Levers of Foreign Assistance]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sunil-chacko/sir-bob-geldof-bono-jeff_b_216031.html In 1984, like many, I applauded loudly when Bob Geldof took up the fight against hunger in Ethiopia. It was extraordinary then for a pop singer to be taken seriously on anything apart from stage performance. Sir Bob's Boomtown Rats songs were spectacularly different anyway, and were loved by as many as loathed them. The adverse publicity of stories about bottled dead rats (whether or not they were true) having been sent to generate publicity startled the urbane world.

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