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Aid Effectiveness in Africa: the Unfinished Agenda
Africa is the world’s most aided major region. Yet economic growth has been disappointingly low there. A number of factors explain the poor outcomes and limited sustainability of and in Africa. But the organisation and management of the aid relationship is a particularly important one, including the dependence of Africans on that aid. The currently popular nostrums for solving the problem of th...
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Having followed the GM debate in Africa for five years and attended the food aid scientific meeting called by the Zambian government in July 2002, I feel that the real issue about accepting genetically modified (GM) food aid is based on politics and not safety. A huge UN program is currently equipping developing countries with the capacity to assess the safety of genetically modified organisms,...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: African Development Review
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1017-6772,1467-8268
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8268.2008.00181.x