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Cutting Off the Honduran Coup's Air Supply

Laura Carlsen | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Read More: Honduran Coup, Inter-American Development Bank, School of the Americas Watch, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Panamax, World News
Laura Carlsen

With grassroots challenges growing throughout the country and outside supplies being cut off, the question the world is asking is: How long can this last?

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Tough Talk on Africa is a Two-Way Street

David Lane | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Ghana, African Leaders, Hillary Clinton Africa, Hillary Clinton, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Africa, World News
David Lane

Secretary Clinton has made it clear that America has no tolerance for the corruption and impunity that has sadly plagued the independence generation in many African states.

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When Aid Agencies Listen

Dennis Whittle | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

Read More: Globalgiving, Aid Agencies, Development, International Aid, Aidwatch, Reinventing Foreign Aid, Mcc, Millennium Challenge Corporation, World News
Dennis Whittle

The aid industry has spent over $2 trillion since World War II to help spur the development of poorer countries, with not enough to show for it.

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Where Poverty and Culture Intersect: Embracing Local Traditions to Better Fight Poverty

Ivonne A-Baki | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

Read More: United National Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, Poverty, Unesco, World Poverty, Arts, Global Poverty, Culture, Millennium Challenge Corporation, World News
Ivonne A-Baki

If the world's poor are to pull themselves out of extreme poverty and onto the path of development, culture is both a means and ends for doing so.

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