Mark Engler reports from the World Social Forum, now five years old It’s not Paris or Tokyo, Beijing or New York. Nor is it Sao Paulo or Rio de Janeiro. Enthusiastic residents of Porto Alegre, Brazil, will tell you that their modest city of 1.5 million people in the country’s deep south is ‘the...
No quick fix
Can Live8, G8 and all those promises really make poverty history? WILL BROWN examines the recent period of unprecedented attention on Africa’s development. The London bombings in July quickly shifted Africa, and debates on debt, trade and aid, away from their unfamiliar position on the front pages. However, there is still a need to...