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		<title>Markus Brueckner (U of Adelaide) on Economic Growth, Foreign Aid and Causality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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Markus Brueckner is a senior lecturer at the School of Economics, University of Adelaide, and has research interests including economic growth, political economy and applied econometrics. Along with a number of articles published in highly respected academic journals, Dr Brueckner has written for the New York Times, The Economist and the Wall Street Journal.
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		<title>Craig Mawdsley (OneSeed) on Sweatshops, Textiles, and Micro-business for development</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 04:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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Craig Mawdsley is Director of OneSeed a textiles importing business bringing hand-made dresses, bags and other textiles from Cambodia to the markets of Australia. The business began around 6 years ago with Craig&#8217;s $500 tax return as seed capital and growing ever since with sales in 2011 expected to hit $100,000. In this podcast Craig [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Raschky (Monash University) on where Foreign Aid Actually Ends Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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For some, foreign aid, is the only great hope for ending poverty in the very poor nations of our world, whilst for others, foreign aid is a key part of the problem &#8212; fueling wars, corruption and inefficient allocations of capital &#8212; making bad situations even worse. Whilst many researchers have attempted to look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stefan Dercon (Oxford) on Risks, Farming &amp; Poverty Traps in Ethiopia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Why do the poor in Africa suffer so terribly from draught and other natural disasters? Is this simply bad luck, or perhaps bad decision-making? .. Or does economics have something to say about the key issues at play here and moreover, can economists suggest creative solutions to these problems? Stefan Dercon, Professor of Development Economics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africa has to find its own road to prosperity (FT opinion)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 07:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Thanks to Ben Hirons) With respect of Dambisa Moyo&#8217;s thoughts on Dead Aid here is another President of an African nation, this time, Paul Kagame of Rwanda making a case for leading Africa out of poverty by innovation rather than systemic &#8216;plans&#8217;, or &#8217;strategies&#8217;. As Kagame says, Rwanda faces enormous challenges, both geographically, politically, historically, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dambisa Moyo discusses Dead Aid on Norwegian TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 23:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, a video on Dambisa Moyo&#8217;s Dead Aid perspective. Significantly, here, she begins by outlining her ideas with the TV presenter, and then is able to debate them with a member of the Norwegian Parliament who clearly sees eye to eye with Moyo on some of her criticisms of foreign aid, but doesn&#8217;t appear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jakob Madsen on Models of Economic Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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Jakob Madsen, Professor of Economics at Monash University has spent many years in Macro-economic research. He has a particular interest in long-run growth, the models that have been used to explain it, and the data that aims to test these models. In his recent work, he is examining so-called &#8217;second-generation&#8217; endogenous growth models, such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The IMF says 1.4% Contraction for Australia in 2009: Can we afford it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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It seems to me that the recent discussion and alarm about the world economic recession has somehow got itself unhinged from the basic importance of the matter. For instance, take this plot:

From the BBC&#8217;s report, &#8216;Deeper&#8217; recession ahead says IMF&#8217;. The text around the figure goes like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zimbabwe - Left to Die - Foreign Correspondent - ABC</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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Read the transcript of Andrew Geoghegan&#8217;s undercover trip to Zimbabwe from ABC&#8217;s Foreign Correspondent, an excerpt is here:


Cholera is a preventable disease, yet there’s an epidemic raging in Zimbabwe. At least 4,000 are dead, and some 90,000 infected. Filming secretly and posing as tourists, reporter Andrew Geoghegan and producer Mary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorism in Pakistan: is this a development issue?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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The recent terrorist attacks in Pakistan against the Sri Lankan cricket team bring back awful memories of the Mumbai bombings, in which it now appears beyond doubt, Pakistani operatives were also at work. The key question, however, is are there reasons why Pakistan [...]]]></description>
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