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A Call for New African Growth

Read Gordon Brown’s speech to African leaders given in Kampala, Uganda this week:

“…that the job of aid is to kick start business-led growth and not to replace it. And so I believe we need to focus not just on poverty – but on growth. Not just on providing services for the poor, but on an investment climate for those who bring wealth…”


 

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Keena Seyfarth

Keena Seyfarth is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, getting a combination Masters degree in International Health and Humanitarian Assistance at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and International Development and International Economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. She has lived much of her life in rural Africa, and traveled extensively through southern and eastern Africa. She recently returned from six months in Ethiopia, where she worked for the public hospital system.