This is great news, and affirms that at the end, what is needed is recognition and affirmation of those who do good.  I think this is probably one of the best way to improve people’s lives - by rewarding good governance and the development of proper management skills.

After the reward of the Nobel Peace Prize to Dr. Yunus for granting microcredit to poor people,  I am very much encouraged by the various different recognition and programs that recognizes poverty alleviation and economic development is after all, the proper management of skills and resources.

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A top African businessman has launched the world’s biggest prize to reward good governance by departing African statesmen, with a host of world leaders backing his landmark initiative. 

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation, funded out of the Sudanese mobile phone tycoon’s own vast wealth, has been established as an African-based project to recognise good leaders among 48 sub-Saharan African countries — and name and shame the shoddy regimes.

The annual Ibrahim Index for African Governance will rank the countries according to governance quality, with the idea of showing African citizens how their rulers match up.

The foundation is backed by former South African president Nelson Mandela, the Ghanaian United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, former US president Bill Clinton, Prime Minister Tony Blair, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz and African Union Chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare among others.

I just noted this entry in Ecademy, which outlines the top ten scams targetted at UK consumers. In general, this is a good reminder of what to avoid.

Got this in my email again, and thought that this time I would like to share it in the blog .

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argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new
argument.