1. The iPad revolution – NYB 2. Cost of transportation in West Africa – NEXT 3. Financial Times refused to publish this Amnesty International ad 4. Did Charles Taylor give Naomi Campbell a ‘blood diamond’? – BBC 5. A pay-what-you-want restaurant – Chris Blattman
1. Does teaching matter at (American) research universities? 2. The haute stoner cuisine movement 3. How “post-socialist” is Eastern Europe? 4. Investment in most volatile sector of some of West Africa’s most volatile countries
1. Charitable giving and volunteering decline in England 2. Amartya Sen on the great misreading of Adam Smith 3. More Amartya Sen on Adam Smith (Planet Money podcast) 4. China’s first black news anchor 5. Angola’s biggest bank opens an office in Johannesburg
1. Is China a developing country? 2. Swedish think tank wants to clean up relief deliveries with a new ethical aid tool 3. Why cycling in Berlin is a dream 4. The corrupt reign of Emperor Silvio 5. Don’t cry for Wall Street 6. Towards a new world economy 7. Why some Egyptians are becoming… Read More »
See here, here and here for well-reasoned arguments for why they should not. Of course, I am interested in this. I probably wouldn’t have been able to do the MA in Dev. Studies programme at Uppsala if I had to pay tuition fees.
1. How Mathematics might have caused the financial crisis 2. To which Gillian Tett says, Bad practice, not the discipline itself, is to blame for the financial crisis 3. Sex and the single black (American) woman 4. On Goodluck Jonathan’s Amanpour interview 5. Joe Stiglitz: An Agenda for Reforming Economic Theory 6. Zimbabwe hangman position… Read More »
1. Ignoring Africa’s present or the West’s past? – Wronging Rights 2. London faces battle to stop trading shift to eurozone – Financial Times 3. Europe agrees on Greek safety net with IMF role – Reuters 4. Scouring blogs for useful information – The Economist 5. Winner of the world’s oddest book title award –… Read More »
1. An impending UK bonds market crisis might be worse than the Greek debt crisis – Telegraph H/T Keith Hart 2. Haiti, two months after the earthquake – Global Voices blog review 3. Why are religious films making a come-back? – Guardian 4. Morgan Tsvangirai defends Zimbabwe’s indigenisation laws – AllAfrica 5. Should Germany change… Read More »
1. The black damsel in dating distress 2. A Berlin cafe establishes a no child section 3. What other countries think of the United States of America 4. A credible scenario for World War III?
1. Following a coup, Africa trade bloc suspends Niger 2. Nigerian Customs seize contraband worth over N2 billion 3. Nigerian lawmakers want power to sack president 4. Newbie fashion tips for grown-up men 5. Did Hitler’s mistress have a clue?