The following is adapted from a presentation by Jessica Hsu of Other Worlds and Jean Claudy Aristil of Radio VKM Les Cayes at the Executive...
On Social and Economic Development
Development: Measuring the Strengths and Weaknesses of Foreign Aid
Brookings Institute, Alison Burke, Alexandria Icenhower and Delaney Parrish, Office of Communications | July 11, 2014 In 2012, 149 countries around...
Media, Development: Calls for media freedom to be included in post-2015 development goals
NEW YORK, 4 July 2014 (IRIN) - In the debate over the inclusion of media freedom and access to information in the post-2015 development agenda, it...
Media, Development: Guide to Apps for Social Change
Posted by Valerie Oliphant on July 7, 2014 at 11:05am Dear Colleagues, One of the main goals of this site is to help practitioners, students, and...
Development: Killer Facts on Global Poverty and Development
oxfamblogs.org Please steal these killer facts: a crib sheet for advocacy on aid, development, inequality etc, by Duncan Green Development Success...
Development, Haiti: Bill, Hillary and the Haiti Debacle
Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2014 The news website Tout Haiti reported last month that two prominent lawyers have petitioned...
Media, Haiti, Development: Sean Penn Accuses the Media of Ignoring Haiti’s Progress. But He’s Ignoring a Few Uncomfortable Facts, Too.
New Republic, June 19, 2014, By Jonathan M. Katz These days, when U.S. media outlets are looking for an update on the state of things in Haiti, one...
Development: NGOs and the shock of the new
By Elizabeth Blunt, LONDON, 16 June 2014 (IRIN) Photo: R.Redmond/UNHCR The aid juggernaut: slow and inefficient The big international aid agencies...
Development: Maafushi Island Shows the Way for Inclusive Wealth Creation through Tourism
Maafushi Island Shows the Way for Inclusive Wealth Creation through Tourism SUBMITTED BY SANDYA SALGADO ON THU, 05/29/2014 The success story of...
Haiti, Development: Four Years after Earthquake, Housing, Sanitation, Health Care are Still Pressing Needs in Haiti
Center for Economic and Policy Research “International community’s response remains misplaced,” CEPR Co-Director Says Washington, D.C., January 9,...
Media, Development: Launching “A Burmese Journey”
GlobalPost Special Reports, Open Hands Initiative and GroundTruth are teaming up to bring you along on "A Burmese Journey." Five teams of top, young...
Afghanistan, Development: The West is now morally obliged to leave the country in safe hands.
I left Australia in February last year convinced that international forces should leave Afghanistan, and that all Afghans must feel the same. How...