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...NEPAD work? It had better. In sub-Saharan Africa 40% of people exist on less than $1 a day, and average per capita income is lower now than in the 1960s. One African in five lives in a country severely disputed by war. This decline reflects both political and institutional failure. Reform, Museveni argues, "must clearly aim at repositioning Africa from backward, agriculturally focused to industrial societies...
...should support NEPAD's strides toward good governance, but they also have to offer increased trade access to African products. That includes, painfully, reducing their own agricultural subsidies - not raising them, as the U.S. has done. Developed countries' financial support for their own farm products is today equal to sub-Saharan Africa's combined economic output. It is folly, as well as unfair, for the developed North to protect its inefficient industries at the expense of the more competitive industries of the South. And to encourage more responsible and accountable government, the G-8 should also insist that their companies...
Moynihan is the first person ever to serve in the sub-cabinets of four presidential administrations, and the second New York senator to win reelection three times...
Moynihan is the only person in American history to have cabinet or sub-cabinet positions under four presidents—John F. Kennedy ’40, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford—an achievement he cites as his proudest accomplishment in a career of public service spanning nearly half-a-century...
...grants, awarded in a merit competition, are given to Harvard juniors planning to do social science or humanities research in sub-Saharan Africa for their senior honors theses...