Title: Shower of Aid Brings Flood of Progress
Author: Jeffrey Gettleman
Source: NYTimes.com
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Date (published): 08/03/2010
Date (accessed): 09/03/2010
Type of information: article
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML)
Abstract:
Sauri, Kenya — In the past five years, life in this bushy little patch of western Kenya has improved dramatically... Sauri was the first of what are now more than 80 Millennium Villages across Africa, a showcase project that was the dream child of Jeffrey D. Sachs, the Harvard-trained, Columbia University economist...His intent was to show that tightly focused, technology-based and relatively straightforward programs on a number of fronts simultaneously — health care, education, job training — could rapidly lift people out of poverty.