Economic Development Plans for Mali

Link: Emory University News Release - mali.

Students Propose Economic Development Plans for Mali Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, head of The Carter Center and a member of the Emory faculty, hopes the university will be a center for scholarship about the developing world. The former president recently asked Emory officers what could be done here to help the plight of the impoverished African nation of Mali, where The Carter Center has worked for many years to help eradicate guinea worm.

Sociology lecturer Sam Cherribi stepped up to the plate and created an interdisciplinary course, Economic Development in Africa, that includes students from the undergraduate college and schools of business, public health and law. Teams of students developed plans for potential economic development programs to address real-world issues in the country where a quarter of all children die from malaria before their fifth birthday. "The idea is to create programs of genuine solutions that can be applied to Africa's economic plight," says Cherribi.