Oct 16, 2016
ipsnews.net, by Baher Kamal, ROME, Oct 13 2016 – Now that world attention is focused on the fast growing process of urbanisation, with 2 in 3 people estimated to be living in towns and cities by the year 2030, an old “equation” jumps rapidly to mind: each time a...
Oct 13, 2016
[To help Haiti’s hurricane recovery, please support Haitian-led organizations] By Ingrid Arnesen, www.thedailybeast.com, October 13th, 2016 After traveling through the once beautiful, now devastated peninsula that bore the brunt of the storm, it is hard to...
Sep 8, 2016
npr.org, by JASON BEAUBIEN ,Aug. 31, 2016 At the Mirebalais Hospital in Haiti’s central plateau, Dr. Louise Ivers and Dr. Roman Jean-Louis are examining a baby girl who was born in early July with microcephaly, a smaller-than-normal skull often associated with...
Aug 27, 2016
washingtonpost.com, by Alexandra Filindra, Amber Wichowsky And Meghan Condon, Aug. 22, 2016 Twenty years ago today, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reauthorization Act, promising famously to “end welfare as we...
Aug 17, 2016
cgdev.org, Center for Global Development, 8/5/16, Andy Sumner In a new CGD paper we find that: The poor, on average, live at about the same level: they are not necessarily better off in developing countries with higher average incomes Most developing countries could...
