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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 67, waited tables to put herself through Harvard, then went on to work as an economist at the World Bank. Now, after a fiercely fought election in her native Liberia, she is set to be sworn in as Africa's first elected female head of state. Johnson-Sirleaf spoke to Claire Soares in Monrovia last week about leadership, healing the country, and childhood dreams. you're the first woman elected to head an african country. What does that mean to you? It means that I have a great responsibility to meet the expectations of Liberian and African...
...Cooperation and Development, rich nations spend more than $280 billion a year on agricultural "producer support." The U.S. is a piker compared with the European Union, which, when noncash payments and other aid are added in, spends more than three times as much coddling its farmers. World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern estimates that a European cow receives $2.50 a day in subsidies, while 75% of Africans live on less than...
...back from its post-9/11 slide, world economic growth has been more buoyant than at any time in the past three decades. Some experts, including those who support further trade liberalization, say that the damage may be limited if Doha fizzles. Joseph Stiglitz, a former World Bank chief economist who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2001, points out that one of the key advances of the Uruguay Round was the establishment of an international rule of law for trade and a body to enforce it?the WTO itself. It has delivered some stinging blows to both...
...Summers’ comments on the “intrinsic aptitude” of women in math and science led to a discourse on an issue that should be, but often isn’t, addressed. Subsequently, major papers (the Times, the Washington Post) and magazines (Time, Newsweek, the Economist) followed up on the issue, publishing what gender studies have actually shown...
...With 99 percent of the ballots counted, 1971 KSG alumna and former World Bank economist Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf leads with 59.6 percent of the popular vote, although Liberia’s National Election Commission (NEC) will not officially call the election until tomorrow...