Foreign Policy–A Marshall Plan for Africa

Think about it: something has to change in how we work in Africa!

clipped from www.foreignpolicy.com Think Again: A Marshall Plan for Africa America brought Europe back to life a half-century ago. Why not give Africa the same chance? The Marshall Plan was fundamentally different from the aid that Africa has received over the past four decades. The Marshall Plan made loans to European businesses, which repaid them to their local governments, which in turn used that revenue for commercial infrastructure — ports, roads, railways — to serve those same businesses. Aid to Africa has instead funded government and NGO development projects, without any involvement of the local business sector. The Marshall Plan worked. Aid to Africa has not. An African Marshall Plan is long, long overdue. Aid groups will argue that such a plan, grounded in building up the local African economy, can never work. Here are the objections they’ll make to an African Marshall Plan — and why they’re wrong.

Inspirational–The Girl Effect

Wow, meaningful, relevant, beautiful, and forceful.  This is as inspirational as they come.

Go ahead, change the world one girl at a time.