Category Archives: Links

Migration and remittances

From The Economist. For all the fear mongerings over Africans in Europe, or immigrants from the Muslim world in America, globally, these groups are in the minority. Most migration happens within regions, not across them.

And the Mo Ibrahim Africa governance prize goes to no one

Financial Times: Africa governance prize finds no winners: Mo Ibrahim, the Sudanese telecoms magnate, will not award his $5m African leadership prize this year, a decision seen as a rebuke to the former presidents of Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana, among others. The prize, now in its third year, is given to heads of state… Read More »

Nigeria to give 10% of oil cash to Niger Delta people

reports the BBC: Nigerian officials are reportedly planning to give 10% of the country’s oil revenues to people in the Niger Delta, an area plagued by insurgencies. Presidential adviser Emmanuel Egbogah told the UK’s Financial Times that the money would go directly to communities, bypassing powerful state governors. Analysts say the government fears local officials… Read More »

William Easterly on development economics

It is ‘the study of how to get rich without knowing how’. What must we do to end world poverty? At last, an answer: OK, that’s too good to be true. There has been a search for sixty years for the right answer. Now most economists confess ignorance how to raise the rate of economic growth… Read More »

Loomnie Friday Link Love 33

1. The financial crisis, a view from a Brazilian barrio 2. The British Social Science Research Council‘s African Argument’s blog has a Citizenship Debate series 3. Shitting on Hope: Obama and the Peace Controversy 4. A really interesting episode of This American Life, in which the producers try to understand the healthcare debate and the… Read More »

Why Email Won’t Go Obsolete

From the Atlantic Wire: On Monday, the Wall Street Journal’s Jessica E. Vascellaro threw bloggers into a tizzy by proclaiming the dethronement of e-mail as the electronic “king of communications.” Social media, instant messaging and Google Wave deserve crowns now, she said, because they are more suited to the modern expectations of real-time interactivity. While some… Read More »

Daughter of Ahmadinejad advisor seeks asylum in Germany

From Deutsche Welle: Iranian filmmaker Narges Kalhor has applied for asylum in Germany after her visit to a film festival. The move is likely to ruffle feathers in Tehran, as her father is the media advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Narges Kalhor decided at the last minute that she would not return to Tehran after… Read More »