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Andy Dorn

African child mortality: The best story in development | The Economist - 0 views

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  • IT IS, says Gabriel Demombynes, of the World Bank’s Nairobi office, “a tremendous success story that has only barely been recognised”. Michael Clemens of the Centre for Global Development calls it simply “the biggest, best story in development”. It is the huge decline in child mortality now gathering pace across Africa.
Ameya Badwe

Mobile phone: Weapon against global poverty - CNN.com - 0 views

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shared by Ameya Badwe on 09 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Ameya Badwe on 09 Oct 11
     
    (CNN) -- When renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs visited rural villages in sub-Saharan Africa in 2005, he saw impoverished communities with poor drinking water, feast-and-famine crop cycles and rampant malaria infections. What he didn't see was mobile phones.
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