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Other
International Programs
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Africa:
The Politics of Poverty
Link TV presented a live call-in program
about the impact of IMF and World Bank policies on poverty
in Africa. The program includes a recent BBC documentary, Profits
of Doom, that focuses on the West African country of
Ghana, once hailed by the World Bank as a showcase for its
policies. Today, after two decades of financial "discipline," the
majority of Ghanaians are worse off than before. After the
documentary, viewers called in their questions or comments
to Robert Liebenthal, World Bank Senior
Advisor for Africa; Njoki Jehu, Executive
Director of 50 Years Is Enough; Tony Fratto,
Director of Public Affairs for the U.S. Treasury Dept.; and Thomas
Palley, Director of the Globalization Reform Project
for the Open Society Institute.
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Newsbridge/Global
Pulse
A Link TV pilot produced by InterAct,
which has led to the weekly Link TV series Global Pulse.
The pilot program compared U.S. news reports with those
from countries including Lebanon, Argentina and France
on the reconstruction plans for post-war Iraq. Today, Global
Pulse compares news reports from around the world to explore
what you know, and don't know, about the week's big stories.
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Africa
Summit Link
In February 2000, citizens at a soul food
restaurant in the predominantly minority neighborhood of
North Minneapolis, Minnesota were able to discuss issues
of concern to the African American community with Leonard
H. Robinson, Jr., President of the National Summit on Africa.
The Summit was held in Washington DC and attended by hundreds
of African and American political and community leaders.
InterAct was able to connect the Minneapolis
community to an important conference that would have been
difficult for many of them to attend in person. Minneapolis
and Washington were connected via San Francisco, making this
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