Social Sciences
Professor Deborah Bräutigam, a leading expert on China in Africa, is the MacMillan Center's Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecturer. She disputes the common beliefs that China is acquiring large swaths of land, exporting food from Africa, and exploiting communities.
- 19th March 2015, Thursday
Hi! This is Cristina writing. This is last thursday's journal. Lucía was supposed to write the journal today, but, as she had to take the exam, here I am. Today in Social Sciences we have corrected the activities Paqui gave to us last day: 9 and...
- From Impunity To Accountability: Africas Development In The 21st Century
From Impunity to Accountability: Africa's Development in the 21st Century 18 to 19 November 2010 New York, United States Distinguished experts discuss challenges of African development as countries combat poverty, improve the protection of human...
- Monday In Washington, August 4, 2014
This week in Washington is dominated (August 4-6) by the first U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit hosted by the White House. Many think tanks and NGOs will have Africa-focused programs and host individual African leaders. For many, it will be the first time that...
- Washington Winds Down
CHINA?S IMPACT IN AFRICA: HOW DOES CHINA?S ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA COMPARE WITH THE WEST?S? 12/16, 12:30-2:00pm, Lunch, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Society for International Development. Speakers: Ezra Suruma, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution;...
- China's Foreign Aid Underwhelms
China?s Assistance and Government-Sponsored Investment Activities in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia by Thomas Lum, Specialist in Asian Affairs , November 25, 2009, 19 pgs. This report is largely based upon research conducted in 2007-2008 by...
Social Sciences
Will Africa feed China? - no
She is the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, and her teaching and research focus on international development strategies, governance, and foreign aid. She regularly advises international agencies and governments on China-Africa economic engagement. Professor Bräutigam is the author of The Dragon?s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa and Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution. We talk with her about her new book, Will Africa Feed China? It focuses on the question of ?land grabs,? food security, and Chinese agribusiness investment in Africa.
- 19th March 2015, Thursday
Hi! This is Cristina writing. This is last thursday's journal. Lucía was supposed to write the journal today, but, as she had to take the exam, here I am. Today in Social Sciences we have corrected the activities Paqui gave to us last day: 9 and...
- From Impunity To Accountability: Africas Development In The 21st Century
From Impunity to Accountability: Africa's Development in the 21st Century 18 to 19 November 2010 New York, United States Distinguished experts discuss challenges of African development as countries combat poverty, improve the protection of human...
- Monday In Washington, August 4, 2014
This week in Washington is dominated (August 4-6) by the first U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit hosted by the White House. Many think tanks and NGOs will have Africa-focused programs and host individual African leaders. For many, it will be the first time that...
- Washington Winds Down
CHINA?S IMPACT IN AFRICA: HOW DOES CHINA?S ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA COMPARE WITH THE WEST?S? 12/16, 12:30-2:00pm, Lunch, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Society for International Development. Speakers: Ezra Suruma, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution;...
- China's Foreign Aid Underwhelms
China?s Assistance and Government-Sponsored Investment Activities in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia by Thomas Lum, Specialist in Asian Affairs , November 25, 2009, 19 pgs. This report is largely based upon research conducted in 2007-2008 by...