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...Countries such as Ghana and Mozambique, once riven by civil war and coups, have enjoyed tiger-like economic growth thanks to better leadership and foreign investment. Nigeria, whose name has become synonymous with fraud and scam artists, has started tackling corruption. And former advocates of "African socialism" such as Tanzania have embraced the free market and begun to grow. On balance, say Africa's boosters, much of the continent would now benefit from a "big bang" injection of aid and better trade conditions. Africa is not going to change overnight and there is sure to be frustrating backsliding from some...
...business. The Bank has changed from its early days when it focused mainly on funding huge infrastructure projects such as dams and bridges. Under James Wolfensohn, president for the past 10 years, more lending has gone into programs to improve governance, health and education. But some countries, such as Tanzania, have found that educated and healthy people are still poor if they lack jobs. One of Wolfowitz's big challenges will be to kick-start growth in countries that seem stuck in an endless cycle of poverty. The Bank has also striven to combat corruption among governments that receive Bank...
When then-U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that a $107 million, five-year grant would be awarded to Harvard in February 2004 for conducting studies and treatment in Botswana, Nigeria, and Tanzania, researchers were ecstatic...
...grant commits Harvard to treating thousands of patients a year with anti-retroviral drugs and implementing clinical drug delivery mechanisms in three African countries—Botswana, Nigeria, and Tanzania...
Another of the grant’s three program directors, SPH Associate Professor Wafaie Fawzi, head of the efforts in Tanzania, said that many patients who died while awaiting treatment were probably in the critical last stages of the disease...