Africa and Millenium Challenge - connect the dots, fercryinoutloud

Three years ago, the pressure of a looming international aid summit induced President Bush to launch the Millennium Challenge Account, an instrument for plowing generous aid into poor countries with uncorrupt institutions and good policies. Yesterday Mr. Bush responded to similar pressure ahead of next week's Group of Eight summit, which will have Africa high on the agenda. But whereas the Millennium Challenge initiative involved a promise of $5 billion extra for development per year, Mr. Bush's initiatives this time around are modest.

what really drives me totally crazy about articles like this is when they're disconnected from the bigger picture... just the other day, for instance, the nyt reported on the resignation of the Millenium Challenge chief executive and what a miserable failure the mca project has been so far (see my previous post) yet, in the above article, not a word is mentioned of that story... to me, that's just plain crappy journalism... if they had included mention of the mca's dismal performance, it might have led to a further speculation about whether the promised increase of aid to africa wouldn't suffer a similar fate... sheesh...

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