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When SAIS Failed to Tell me What’s Hot in African Development

09 Thursday May 2013

Posted by africaindc in Events, Uncategorized

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African Development, Burkina Faso Inequality, Duncan Green, Oxfam, SAIS

Duncan Green, a bigwig at Oxfam, was slated to speak on “What’s Hot and What’s Not in African Development” today at SAIS.  I popped in for 50 minutes of this session during my lunch break.  While he gave a very interesting and insightful talk on his international development philosophies, Africa did not feature particularly prominently.

The most interesting Africa related anecdote came on a slide that he had displayed.  It showed both Uganda and Burkina Faso as ranking among the lowest income countries with an increasingly unequal distribution of income (conversely, Mali and Malawi had the most success in equalizing income).  Regular Africa in DC readers should be well aware of my Burkina Faso criticisms, so I felt quite vindicated by that graph.

Green’s general point was that aid should be implemented with less linear assumptions (he wants more risk-taking entrepreneurs and fewer project managers) and he stressed that development work should be based on ‘rule of thumb’ more than toolkits and best practices.  He was promoting a book, From Poverty to Power, so I’m sure you can read more about his thoughts there.

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