Wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo International involvement in the violent clashes the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has faced since the dwindling of the Cold-War can be summarized into three terms: subsidization, systemization, and sustainability of conflict. This essay will draw out in detail why the international ‘response’ to clashes in the DRCContinue reading “To Subsidize, Systemize, and Sustain Conflict in the DRC”
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The African Womens Development Fund
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a Ghana-based grantmaking institution serving the continent of Africa. This summary will provide a brief description of the AWDF as an organization, their mission statement, their values, along with a short mention of their current activities. The AWDF was selected for this summary because it is not aContinue reading “The African Womens Development Fund”
One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: The 2007 Global Crisis and Our Future
Have the worst wounds of the crisis been avoided? We might have cauterized the injury with an infection still inside. To name a few: advanced economies, the European Union (EU) and emerging nations face dire economic imbalances; archaic geopolitical style maneuvering is occurring at rising rates in Eastern Europe while Africa and the Arab regionContinue reading “One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: The 2007 Global Crisis and Our Future”
To Build a Review of Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo
To Build a Review of Dead Aid Dambisa Moyo confounded developmental economists and academia in 2009 with her pointed critique of the assistance regime surrounding development in sub-Saharan Africa when she published Dead Aid. Since that time, the ideas professed by Moyo have been considered rather profound yet divisive. Niall Ferguson sums up the initialContinue reading “To Build a Review of Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo”