Tag: aid
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The extent of disaster in Davao highlights a lesson still unlearned which is that bayanihan and aid can only do so much. People could always empty out their wardrobes and pantries of extra stuff and send these off to affected communities which would be fed and clothed, but only for a limited time. After that…
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But Isn’t Doing Something Better than Doing Nothing? is a question posed to the author of the same title of an article at the Center for Global Development. I think that aid helps people, communities, and countries in big ways and so of course let’s do something. The more relevant question and concern though is,…
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…there are already enormous efforts being put into achieving greater coordination and coherence in responses through new UN structures and NGO consortia. However, fundamental differences of ideology, outlook, institutional cultures, and working practices make this difficult… With no single authority governing humanitarian action, it will be impossible to get a critical mass of agencies to…
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We should think about the impact of migration more in terms of the impact on people and less in terms of the impact on countries. In particular, there is a substantial benefit to the migrants themselves which should be at the front of our minds. – Owen Barder Listen to the podcast: policy on economic…
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Original at shotgun shack: Dear “Development,” By the time you read this letter I will be gone. We have been together a total of five years, with a long separation in the middle when I nearly eloped with social anthropology…. In our first stormy year, I was the “local hire” expat on a bicycle. The other…
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