Millennium Villages

Famine and Plenty, Both in Times of Drought

Josh Ruxin | Posted 10.16.2009 | World


Josh Ruxin

In Rwanda and across Africa, the Millennium Villages project has demonstrated that food scarcity can be all but vanquished if the required resource management, investment and political will are available.

Sustainable Results: Addressing Misconceptions About The Millennium Villages Project

Donald Ndahiro | Posted 07.24.2009 | World


Donald Ndahiro

The project has achieved its goal of sustainably reducing poverty in the community, and on that foundation of stability, the community has begun real prosperity-creation projects.

Jeffrey Sachs' Misguided Foreign Aid Efforts

Magatte Wade | Posted 07.19.2009 | World


Magatte Wade

Poverty in Africa will be eliminated not by aid, but by entrepreneurial job creation, by real entrepreneurs creating scalable enterprises that will ultimately create millions of jobs.

Madonna, Africa and Child Mortality

Jim Luce | Posted 06.15.2009 | World


Jim Luce

The deaths of African children are all about food, water and cooking stoves. There is usually no public health system in place to address this tragic litany of otherwise very approachable issues.