'Promise' of Africa Goes Untold
Peter Parisi
January 21, 2008
Washington Times, Washignton, DC
(Excerpt)
Much of the news that comes out of sub-Saharan Africa routinely involves civil wars, poverty, famine and government corruption, but "there's a lot of promise in Africa," says Karol Boudreaux, lead researcher for Enterprise Africa.
In Rwanda, starting in 1999 to 2000, Mrs. Boudreaux said, market forces rapidly increased incomes for coffee growers — many of them "genocide widows" — after Kigali stopped requiring them to sell their product only to the government. "This is an industry transforming people's lives," she said. "The profit motive is doing a powerfully good thing."
