A group of development experts issues a plea for reform. BY MATT ANDREWS , LENI WILD , MARTA FORESTI, NOVEMBER 25, 2014 As the latest version of...
Development: It’s Time to Rethink How We Do Development
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Issues and Analysis
On the Media: The Kremlin Is Killing Echo of Moscow, Russia’s Last Independent Radio Station
Original article found on: The Daily Beast By Anna Nemtsova, 11/07/14 For years, if you asked politicians whether Russia had freedom of speech,...
Afghanistan: Life in Kabul – Will Afghan women finally stop being seen as a freak show?
Original article found on: The Telegraph By Heidi Kingstone, 7 Nov 2014 This is one of my clearest memories of life in Kabul. The year was 2007, I...
Development: International Development Is Broken. Here Are Two Ways to Fix It.
Original article found on: New Republic By Michael Hobbes, Nov 18 2014 So I just wrote this essay about all the reasons I think international...
Afghanistan, Development: Pentagon’s Economic Development in Afghanistan ‘Accomplished Nothing’
Defence News, Nov. 18, 2014 - 03:45AM | By JOE GOULD | An Afghan construction worker makes concrete tubes on the outskirts of Kabul. A U.S....
Afghanistan, Development: The West Made Lots of Promises to Afghan Girls, Now It’s Breaking Them
Original article found on: The Daily Beast By Heather Barr, 10/20/14 One reason given for the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan was to educate girls. But...
Haiti: Creating Haiti’s Future Leaders Through Art
Original article found on: Huffington Post By Karl Romain, Posted: 11/12/2014 2:36 pm EST The 2010 earthquake in Haiti took an estimated...
Immigrant and Refugee: Baker’s cabinet pick raises eyebrows
Original article found on: The Boston Globe By Maria Sacchetti | November 13, 2014 Chelsea City Manager Jay Ash has led a city of immigrants...
Development, Afghanistan: Afghan malnutrition – the search for solutions
Photo: Joe Dyke/IRIN Three-month old Shukoria has severe malnutrition JALALABAD, 11 November 2014 (IRIN) - Abdullah's wails of pain are punctuated...
On the Media: The Globe rolls out red carpet for documentary film
Original article found on: Poynter By Benjamin Mullin, Published Oct. 24, 2014 1:25 pm This year, editors at The Boston Globe noticed that they...
On the Media: Controlled chaos – As journalism and documentary film converge in digital, what lessons can they share?
Original article found on: NiemanLab By LIAM ANDREW Oct. 29, 2014 Old and new media types from journalism, documentary, and technology backgrounds...
Afghanistan: Climate change – Afghans on the front line
Original article found on: IRIN - Asia By Joe Dyke MAZAR-I-SHARIF, 4 November 2014 (IRIN) - In northern Afghanistan, the residents don't often use...