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At the launch for my new book Getting Better: Why Global Development is Succeeding, And How We Can Improve the World Even More, Nancy Birdsall announced a twitter competition –tweet what was getting better and win a copy of the book. We had a number of entries to #gettingbetter in response, including:
This recent Columbia Journalism Review article on Hiding the Real Africa reports:
And now for some good news out of Africa. Poverty rates throughout the continent have been falling steadily and much faster than previously thought... The death rate of children under five years of age is dropping… Africa is “among the world’s most rapidly growing economic regions,” according to the McKinsey Quarterly… Yet US journalism continues to portray a continent of unending horrors…
Been discouraged about the state of the world recently? (Me, too.) Charles Kenny’s new book should be at the top of our reading lists.
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