
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Generations of development economists, non-profit leaders, and charitable organizations have struggled to understand why Africa lags so stubbornly behind the Western world in terms of living standards. Explanations have focused on the continent's geography, its history, and its people, but Magatte Wade, author of "The Heart of a Cheetah," has a different tale. She tells Matt Kibbe that the solution to African poverty lies not in combatting poverty, but in promoting prosperity through stronger, more liberal institutions, better protection of property rights, and more freedom.
By Blaze Podcast Network4.8
299299 ratings
Generations of development economists, non-profit leaders, and charitable organizations have struggled to understand why Africa lags so stubbornly behind the Western world in terms of living standards. Explanations have focused on the continent's geography, its history, and its people, but Magatte Wade, author of "The Heart of a Cheetah," has a different tale. She tells Matt Kibbe that the solution to African poverty lies not in combatting poverty, but in promoting prosperity through stronger, more liberal institutions, better protection of property rights, and more freedom.

26,261 Listeners

37,625 Listeners

14,245 Listeners

21,227 Listeners

10,421 Listeners

2,269 Listeners

830 Listeners

4,782 Listeners

8,188 Listeners

21,011 Listeners

5,851 Listeners

328 Listeners

368 Listeners

24,760 Listeners

1,191 Listeners

731 Listeners

138 Listeners

50 Listeners

826 Listeners

97 Listeners

116 Listeners

301 Listeners

140 Listeners

250 Listeners

371 Listeners