"It’s ridiculous how simple it is" Angelina Jolie tells MTV viewers on YouTube after hearing Professor Jeffrey Sachs explain how an insecticide-treated bed net controls malaria on a visit to Sauri, a ‘Millennium Village’ in Kenya. Angelina is right in one way but, as so often in development, the apparent simplicity belies tremendous complexity.
This Project Briefing reviews the impact of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP), brainchild of The Earth Institute headed by Jeffrey Sachs, using case studies from Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi and Uganda. It confirms the many successes of the MVP, and reviews its potential for scaling up, with recommendations for the MVP, governments and donors.
The purpose of this brief is to review Malawi's experience in order to identify the challenges facing “smart” subsidy programmes if they are to be sustainable and cost effective in delivering on their goals.
This Background Note discusses which developing countries may be at risk as a result of the global financial crisis.
This study examines how one type of Japanese support, the one-village one-product (OVOP) approach, fits with other donor approaches and how it relates to the development of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). It also presents some preliminary findings from Malawi’s experience of OVOP.
This study offers practical insights for donors and national governments on how to strengthen the links between PRSs and national budgets, with a view to improving domestic accountability.
The study examines the impact of domestic politics on public sector reform in African states that are classed as neopatrimonial or 'hybrid'.