Here is a list with potential to cheer us up...
A good exercise would be to carefully go through this list and identify whether we have reliable empirical evidence to believe any causal relationship between government policy and stated successful outcomes. This is particularly important in case these "success stories" translate into policy recommendations for a powerful and influential agency like the World Bank. For now, beyond the issues around causality and attribution, the most important contribution of this list is to shed light on the positive side of African development in recent years. This is important as general audiences grow ever more disillusioned with African stories of corruption, pervasive poverty and forseeable failures in reaching the Millennium Development goals by 2015...
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