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Film Brings Sub-Saharan AIDS Pandemic to a Global Audience
Yesterday presents a moving and beautiful depiction of a Zulu woman struggling to understand the impacts of her own illness.Yesterday, Starring: Kenneth Khambula, Leleti Khumalo. Director: Darrell...
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Can Global Companies Save Africa?
An expert on multinational companies influence in Eastern Europe asks whether Sub-Saharan Africa can benefit as well. Multinational companies were a driving force in Eastern Europe's postcommunist...
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Poverty in Africa Linked to Water Management
According to the United Nations, African countries will be hard pressed to emerge from poverty due to poor water management, not a lack of available water. African countries will be hard pressed to...
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Huge Strides Made to Treat HIV in Sub-Saharan Region
Access to HIV treatment has greatly improved in some of the areas that are hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.A woman passes out condoms for HIV/AIDS prevention. Photo Credit: Emmy Lang-Kennedy for...
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Falling HIV Rates Tell Complex Story
Though HIV/AIDS statistics suggest that the epidemic is waning, the real situation is far less clear.Many African countries are claiming that their HIV prevalence rates are declining. Photo Credit:...
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Sub-Saharan Africa's Working Poor to Increase in 2009
A staggering 82 percent of workers in sub-Saharan Africa are classified as "working poor"— those who are working but are still in poverty. The International Labor Organization expects that percentage...
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The International Monetary Fund Boosts Financial Aid to Poor Nations
Earlier today the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced plans to provide up to $17 billion in desperately-needed assistance to poor nations over the next five years. IMF managing director...
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A 'Rising Star' in Economics
Ever wonder why some development projects succeed while others fail?Esther Duflo and her colleagues at MIT’s Poverty Action Lab are working on the answer. Duflo is one of the newest recipients of the...
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Can this climate-proof ‘Rambo root’ ease the pains of global warming?
It’s not easy finding a silver lining in the burgeoning effects of global warming on agriculture, but a new scientific report claims that it might not be all gloom and doom. Multiple news sources have...
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The African Century? Multinationals gear up for a sub-Saharan boom
Africa now holds an unfamiliar title: Continent with the fastest growing economy in the world. An article this week in The Atlantic, “The Next Asia is Africa,” provides telling evidence for the...
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Anticompetitive collusion is silently choking Africa's ports
A new study by the World Bank has found a complex answer to a simple question: why does cargo spend weeks in Sub-Saharan ports?The aptly titled study, explains how the average cargo dwell time in most...
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