triblive.com, by Natasha Lindstrom, May 16, 2016 , 5 min read, original Public Health Comparisons: Hospital occupancy U.S.: 60 percent Hopital...
HAITI, DEVELOPMENT: Health workers in Haiti on mission to thwart spread of Zika
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DEVELOPMENT: Western do-gooders need to resist the allure of ‘exotic problems’
By: Courtney E Martin 23 April 2016 TheGuardian Problems in countries far from home can somehow seem far easier to solve, says Courtney Martin....
HAITI/DEVELOPMENT: Don’t Dump Peanuts on Haiti, Campaigners Tell the US
Published 2 May 2016 TeleSur Ostensibly a donation, flooding Haiti with peanuts could wipe out the country's struggling domestic producers. As part...
DEVELOPMENT: Opinion: Increasing Productivity Key to Revive Growth and Support Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific
By Shamshad Akhtar IPS The author is an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP. She has been the UN’s...
DEVELOPMENT: UN Predicts 40 Percent Water Shortfall by 2030
By Thalif Deen IPS UNITED NATIONS, Apr 28 2016 (IPS) - Ten presidents and prime ministers from around the world will work together to resolve the...
DEVELOPMENT/ON THE MEDIA: IF IT HAD HAPPENED OVER HERE
14TH MAR 2016 Tumblr How would it sound, if African media reported US elections in the same tone as Western media report on polls in Africa and...
DEVELOPMENT: Secret aid worker: is humanitarian work a career for escapists?
By: Secret aid worker 23 February 2016 TheGuardian The grass is always greener elsewhere for western expats, says one development worker....
DEVELOPMENT: Secret aid worker: who will save the white saviours from themselves?
By: Secret aid worker 19 April 2016 TheGuardian I see subtle forms of racism all around me. Others call it charity When one lives...
DEVELOPMENT: Expat wages up to 900% higher than for local employees, research shows
A survey of 1,300 local and expat workers found a wage gap that ranges from 400-900% and causes significant resentment among local workers Imagine...
DEVELOPMENT: What the Panama Papers Mean for Global Development
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage IPS UNITED NATIONS, Apr 12 2016 (IPS) - The financial secrecy and tax evasion revealed by the Panama Papers has an...
DEVELOPMENT: How to reduce humanitarian need
20 Apr 2016 By: Stephen O’Brien, UNOCHA and Kevin J. Jenkins, World Vision International Original In the next decade, most of the world’s acutely...
DEVELOPMENT: Global inequality may be much worse than we think
By: Jason Hickel Friday 8 April 2016 TheGuardian How do we measure inequality? From some angles, things appear to be improving, but from others the...