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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Monday, August 22, 2005

Africa Feels EU's Bite

by Richard Tren and Marian L. Tupy

Richard Tren is director of Africa Fighting Malaria, a think tank based in South Africa. He is the co-author of a recent Cato Institute study, titled, "South Africa's War against Malaria: Lessons for the Developing World." Marian L. Tupy is assistant director of the Project on Global Economic Liberty at the Cato Institute.

In recent months it has become fashionable to say that future Western aid to Africa will be a hand up, not a handout. African governments, the aid lobby claims, will be encouraged to search for innovative solutions to their problems, free of Western interference. Yet, when the Ugandan government decided to introduce DDT, an effective insecticide, to its malaria-control program, the European Union threatened to embargo Ugandan agricultural exports to the EU. The EU threats are based on junk science. If carried out, they will cause a lot of harm.

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