Monthly Archives: November 2009

Foreign aid & solutions to corruption

In “Our Turn to Eat,” Michaela Wrong writes about Kenya: Kenya’s foreign partners failed to grasp that a system of rule based on the ‘Our Turn to Eat’ principle was explicitly designed to prevent the trickle-down upon which they counted for progress. The better Kenya’s economy fared, the more unstable the country actually became, because…

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Feature Friday & Friday Links!

Hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving! From now on, I’m going to keep Feature Fridays shorter and add on a list of my favorite links from the past week or so I constantly run across so many fascinating articles and blog posts to share that I felt I should start sharing them over here,…

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers. Thank you so much for reading, commenting, tweeting, or discussing these issues with me. It genuinely means a lot, and I put time and effort into writing this blog not only because I personally love writing, but also because I love interacting with all of you on a regular…

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The Be the Change series comes to an end…

In the past couple of months (!) I have been incredibly happy to have so many intelligent and passionate Gen Y changemakers stop over at my blog to partake in the Be the Change series. What we learned Through this series, we read about the grand dreams and visions that Gen Yers have to change…

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Continue the conversation: #ypsc chat!

The Be the Change blog series is coming to an end. I have one final guest post coming up on Friday — and then will be wrapping up the series! I’ve been incredibly impressed and completely blown away with the participation in this series. So, a great big thank you to all those who have…

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Be the Change: Listening to China, by Leslie Forman

I’ve lived in China for almost two and a half years.  This country has seen so much change in the past generation that it reminds me of a song I learned in elementary school: “the only thing that doesn’t change is change.”  I think that listening to stories is the best way for an outsider…

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