Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Jennifer Cooke, codirector of the CSIS Africa Project, was quoted by the Wall Street Journal, "Two Routes to Building Africa."
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Jennifer Cooke, codirector of the CSIS Africa Project, was quoted by the Wall Street Journal, "Two Routes to Building Africa."
President Bush's stopover in this war-ravaged African nation highlighted the huge development gaps in parts of the continent, as well as the unusual symbiotic relationship emerging between Western powers and China as they try to fill them.
In aiding fragile African democracies such as Liberia, the U.S. and other Western powers are focusing increasingly on human development, including health care, education and good governance. They are hoping to avert short-term unrest while building long-term economic capacity.
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