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Economic Thinking Malawi: November 2005
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005. More Malawi updates - some thoughts. More notes since I have returned to the US. I have purposely kept out names and locations to protect many of those I met. Malawi still does not have substantial freedom of speech or freedom of the press. Posted by Riskman1 @ 9:05 AM. Observations on Construction and Real Estate Secto. How one book could effect a nation. I was at this prison in September this year-Great . AIDS: 1 in 9 Malawians infected. More Malawi updates - some thoughts.
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Economic Thinking Malawi: December 2005
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Friday, December 16, 2005. Commercial and personal banking services are generally available only for Malawians with passports, driver’s licenses or similar ID. Unfortunately less than 10% of Malawians have any of this ID. OIBM generates additional income from Certificate of Deposit accounts for larger accounts with minimum opening balances of 500,000 MK ( $3,846 US) offering 9-10% 1-6 month interest rates. Another book I highly recommend on this topic is Tom Bethel’s "The Noblest Triumph: Property and Pr...
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Economic Thinking Africa: 05/01/2005 - 06/01/2005
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005. Learning to Love Africa. E-mail to Monique Maddy, a businesswoman and author of "Learning to Love Africa: My Journey from Africa to Harvard Business School and Back"]. Your book arrived yesterday. I started it last night and am reading this morning. It's great! I started at beginning this morning after reading chapters 10 (Coming to America) and 11 (Georgetown, John Hopkins, Sorrow) last night. Anyway, P.T. Bauer's books were great He died a couple years ago but you can rea...I rem...
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Economic Thinking Malawi: September 2005
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Thursday, September 22, 2005. Last update from Lilongwe- super slow internet connection. We are on our way home tomorrow (Friday). I have not had the chance to get on oline this past week but will try to catch up once I get back to Seattle. They are willing and able to help take the longer term steps to building the academic infrastructure for long term change both in terms of encouraging liberty in Malawi and reforming institutions. Today, I said goodbye to most of my students. Malawi update #2 (9-14-05).
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Economic Thinking Africa: 02/01/2007 - 03/01/2007
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Sunday, February 18, 2007. Public Health (Socialism) for Africa. Review of Meredeth Turshen's Privatizing Health Services in Africa. See chapters available online here. The author faults governments in Eastern Europe for "abdicating decades-old commitments to public housing, public education, and public health." (page 1). Of course for Eastern Europeans these socialist "commitments" came at high cost and with considerable baggage (communism! In any case it is worth reading at least the first chapters of ...
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Economic Thinking Malawi: August 2005
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Thursday, August 18, 2005. Book Aid for Africa. more books for Malawi. Multiple copies of pictures books will be on their way to Malawi for students to read and review. We expect these to become part of local economics libraries, and for students to post their reviews and comments here. Posted by Gregory Rehmke @ 6:06 PM. Wednesday, August 17, 2005. Economic Thinking Malawi Program. Posted by Gregory Rehmke @ 8:07 PM. Observations on Construction and Real Estate Secto. How one book could effect a nation.
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Economic Thinking Africa: 07/01/2007 - 08/01/2007
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007. Blogs are for less formal notes. Part of researching African economic development is less formal too. Watching movies instead of academic research. The first few minutes of Blood Diamonds. The fishing village is a story in itself. Why in 2006 are villagers fishing with old wooden boats and returning with six fish on a single line? Highly-recommended recent books on African enterprise and conflict include Robert Guest's The Shackled Continent,. From African chaos Blood Diamonds.
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Economic Thinking Africa: 06/01/2005 - 07/01/2005
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Thursday, June 09, 2005. Clearing a Field of Dreams in Africa. I can see the attraction of aging rock musicians to the Live 8 project. Wouldn't it be cool if any of us could help Africans just by doing what we are good at and like to do? Performers perform. After years of practice they learn how to make song and spectacle. Wouldn't it be great, rockers think, if they could help save Africa just by playing music? A "Live 8 Reality Tour" would reveal that most Africans, like most people everywhere else, in...
