Duncan Green writing for Oxfam’s From Poverty to Power blog: ‘Remittances to Africa are rising. In 2013, transfers to the region were valued at $32 billion, or around 2% of GDP. Charges on remittances to Africa…
April 2014
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Rafia Zakaria has a great piece on The White Tourist’s Burden for Al Jazeera America: In recent years, the ethics of voluntourism, especially its underbelly of exploitation, have been questioned by academics and activists alike. Most…
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Catherine Phiri: Lack of a choice is not a choice. Just because that’s what we are given all the time doesn’t mean that’s what we want. Debunking the made-for-Africa script: Catherine Phiri at TEDxEuston – YouTube.…
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Small steps to building a better remittances engine to Uganda
April 19, 2014 Diaspora at work Economy Projects UgandaPost by remit.ug. Building something to solve a long-faced problem is one of the hardest and most satisfying things to undertake. Steve Jobs is famous for saying “we build things we want to use.” Remit.ug has…
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I am reading Dayo Olopade’s Bright Continent, and something occurred to me. Uganda seems to be everywhere. Nearly all the people I interact with in the development space have worked, lived, or toured the country physically…
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