Currents:

• With great fanfare, Humanitarian Bush signs the AIDS bill for Africa (Washington Post, May 28)
• The effect of world markets and an example from Mali cash crop campaigns: (from BBC)
• A powerful woman governs one of India's most populous statets (166 million). Amy Waldman, NY Times.
• Meanwhile, back in Iraq . . . by Sabrina Tavernise, NY Times.
• Money (or lack of) doesn't explain SARS spread (Vietnam mobilized quickly). Seth Mydans, NY Times.

Miscellany

• Jeffrey Sachs presentation, 'Weapons of mass salvation,' is online if you have a decent connection (it runs close to an hour). Here's the link:

  http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/B-SPAN/sub_jsachs.htm

• Here's a good example of an issue we were discussing the other day (week 2)--exclusion of women from private clubs (with a constitutional right to remain private). Fighting for the right to belong to a Country Club does seem a bit, well, trivial when it reaches the national stage, but Burk makes the argument that it's really about more than a private country club.
  Kate Ziernike. 2003. Burk fights battle she's given. New York Times, April 11. Online at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/sports/golf/y11burk.html?tntemail0=&pagewanted=print&position=top
• Interestingly, as much of the rest of the world tries to follow the feminist lead of 'the West,' there are suggestions of trends here at home toward the erosion of women's rights.
  Jennifer Lee. 2003. Attack on judician nominee leads senate panel to delay vote. New York Times, April 11. Online at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/politics/11JUDG.html?tntemail1=&pagewanted=print&position=top

• Benjamin Friedman. 2002. A book review of Joseph Stiglitz's Globalization and its discontents. New York Review of Books, Aug 15. Online at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15630. This is a good discussion of globalization and development policy. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist.
• Here's an example of the importance of remittances (from NY Times, 2002, by Ginger Thompson, March 25): http://query.nytimes.com/search/article-printpage.html?res=9C02E5D9143BF936A15750C0A9649C8B63
• How far does $1 a day go? (from Washington Post, 2002, by John Jeter, Feb 19) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A30110-2002Feb18?language=printer
• What's gender mainstreaming and the Millennium Development Goals? This is a letter from Angela King, Assistant Secretary General to the U.N. http://www.un.org/womenwatch/news/articles/Jan15_02_wbpanel.html
• Amnesty International Women's Human Rights Campaign (several links to information)
• Some links related to cocoa production in Ghana. Figure this one out:
  • some facts
  • benefits of cocoa farming
  • Cash and carry misery in Ghana (by John Kampfner)