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July 17, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
Uganda’s Oil Tanker Explosion: More Than Poverty?

This is a guest post by Brooke Bocast, a PhD candidate in anthropology at Temple University and a visiting predoctoral fellow at Northwestern University. She is currently writing her doctoral dissert…

A fuel tanker burns at the scene of a fatal road accident on the outskirts of the capital Kampala June 30, 2013.
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Africa in Transition

January 17, 2013

Wars and Conflict
New From CFR: John Campbell on Poverty and the Conflict in Mali

Yesterday on his blog, CFR senior fellow John Campbell wrote about the dire poverty facing Malians, a situation only exacerbated by the current conflict. As he notes: Infant mortality exceeds 10 per…

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Blog Post by Development Channel Staff Development Channel

November 10, 2010

Fossil Fuels
A New Paper on Energy Poverty

I’m a coauthor on a new paper, “Understanding the Scale of Investment for Universal Energy Access”, just published in Geopolitics of Energy. (The other authors are from UNIDO, the IEA, and Margaree C…

Blog Post by Michael Levi Energy, Security, and Climate

May 29, 2015

Development
This Week in Markets and Democracy: FIFA Corruption, Chronic Hunger, and Poverty Reduction

This post marks the launch of a new feature on the Development Channel, "This Week in Markets and Democracy." Each Friday, CFR’s Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Program, will highlight the week…

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Blog Post by Shannon K. O'Neil Development Channel

January 16, 2013

France
Amid Conflict, Poverty Is the Reality for Most Malians

With attention focused on radical Islamists, a dysfunctional government in Bamako, and the French military intervention, it is easy to overlook that for most Malians, to stay alive is, in itself, oft…

Militiaman from the Ansar Dine Islamic group sit on a vehicle in Gao in northeastern Mali 20/06/2012.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition