This 2007 story will sound very familiar to longtime watchers of the World Bank in Africa. Malawi jettisoned ridiculous WB policies advocated to fulfill neoliberal economic theory and instead adjusted to realistic local conditions. Result: less malnutrition and starvation.

A similar tale is told by Peter Griffiths in The Economist's Tale. An excellent reminder of how Robert Mugabe is not the only man starving Africans to death on the continent. However, these others manage to not only maintain the Western world's respect, but indeed do so on our dime and in our name.