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1. Mo Ibrahim, the Sudanese philanthropist, has launched his index ranking African countries according to how well they are governed, reports the Guardian...:
   http://bit.ly/3OXOq
2. …which was immediately followed by a rival release from his former grantee, Harvard University’s Dr. Robert Rotberg:
   http://bit.ly/yCimT
3. The Charity Commission reports a 17% rise in UK charity sector income over the last two years:
   http://bit.ly/WdsxX
4. The world’s first fund managing charitable donations by Muslims – the World Zakat Fund - is set to be launched in early 2010, reports Reuters:
   http://bit.ly/GyMWE
5. and David Roodman of the Center for Global Development takes a closer look at the workings of Kiva.org, the highly successful person-to-person microlending site:
   http://bit.ly/LcSzn

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