NYTIMES (Elian Peltier and Asim Hafeez) - Iran’s Neighbors Long for a Deal, Any Deal, to End the War
Business owners in Pakistan are getting impatient for a chance to finally trade goods and oil along their long shared border with Iran.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Brad Pearce) - How Africa Can Work
A new book shows that development is not a matter of chance, but of policy. The post How Africa Can Work appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books How Africa Can Work A new book shows that development is not a matter of chance, but of policy. (Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP via Getty Images) How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier by Joe Studwell. Atlantic Monthly Press, 435 pages. It seems like every man who has given any thought to Africa, and many who haven’t, has a pet cause for Africa’s perpetual dysfunction, which usually conveniently lines up with his preexisting world view. In How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier, Joe Studwell provides a refreshingly…Open
NYTIMES (Stephanie Nolen) - No H.I.V. Aid Without More Access to Minerals: U.S. Ponders ‘Sticks’ Against Zambia
A draft State Department memo outlines ways the Trump administration may ratchet up pressure on the African country by ending health support “on a massive scale.”