Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Struggle over the Nile - Lori Pottinger

(AlJazeeraEnglish, 7 Jun 2011)- 'Africa's large dams have not reversed poverty, they have not dramatically increased electricity rates, they have not dramatically improved water supply for people living there .

What they have done is help create small industrial economy that tends to be companies from Europe and elsewhere and so these benefits are really really concentrated in a very small elite.'


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