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>Microfinance for the armchair investor

>I have been a big fan of Kiva since I stumbled across their website nearly two years ago (just before a NY Times article got them widely noticed). Late-night visitors to the Kennedy School of...

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>Belated benefit from slave castles

>Last year a trip to Senegal opened my eyes to the evils of the slave trade in West Africa. More recently, I went to visit two of the ‘slave castles’ on the coast of Ghana. Both are carefully...

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Agriculture links

First, an interview with Roy Steiner at the Gates Foundation about the African green revolution. Roy helped arrange funding for Ethiopia’s Agricultural Transformation Agency, where I used to work, and...

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