Internet Research Materials:

• Live8live.com: Live 8 Concerts
• The Washington Post: Article: A Modest Proposal
• The UN Millennium Project
• The UN: African Integration
• The World Bank: HIV/AIDS in Africa

Questions for Seminar Discussions

• What is the Easterly-Sachs debate about?
• What are the Millennium Development Goals? What is the Millennium Challenge Corporation?
• How did state-formation in Africa differ from that in Europe in the Middle Ages? What are the implications of these differences for today’s economic development?
• How can the lack of growth in post-independence Sub-Saharan Africa be explained? Why did SSA grow so slowly compared to other regions in the same period? Discuss the different explanations proposed in the lecture and analyze their relative strength.
• Where do you see the solution for African development problems in the future?

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