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Here’s a US development program working – stop it immediately!
“[O]pen trade and international investment are the surest and fastest ways for Africa to make progress,” President Bush said when he signed an extension to the African Growth and Opportunities Act...
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Hillary offers trade opportunities to Africa – unless we don’t feel like it
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had good news for Africa in the Nairobi forum yesterday on the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). AGOA offers breaks from quotas and duties on African...
View ArticleHopeless cause of the week: save Madagascar!
Aid Watch has a stubborn attachment to excellent but possibly hopeless causes…Madagascar, a country we first blogged about in June and then again in August, may be down to its last few days as regards...
View ArticleUSTR Replies to Our Campaign to Save Madagascar Jobs
After sending an email to Constance Hamilton, Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Africa, we received the following email in response: Thank you, Mr. Easterly, for your email. We of course,...
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Madagascar textile workers ask President Obama to keep their jobs for...
Here’s an excerpt from an ad that appeared in the print edition of Politico today, paid for by the owners of apparel factories in Madagascar and one of their American investor partners. We have blogged...
View ArticleChronicle of a death foretold
When the article Madagascar: Textile Industry Unravels came across our desks yesterday, we were saddened but not surprised. That’s because people on the ground have been predicting this outcome (and...
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Worst in Aid: The Grand Prize
Hillary Clinton recently declared: “We are working to elevate development and integrate it more closely with defense and diplomacy in the field…The three Ds must be mutually reinforcing.”Clinton says...
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