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Hey NGOs! Stop fighting with each other!
If you’re sincere about fighting poverty, you shouldn’t be trying to out-compete someone else who’s also fighting poverty. Bookda Gheisar…
Lies, Damned Lies, Latin America and the Media
On this week’s podcast, I chat with Keane Bhatt about media reporting gone awry with systemic inaccuracies and bias. And…
Cancer kills an awful lot of poor people, but they’re fighting back
Silberner interviewing a doctor who treats breast cancer in Haiti. I’m sick with a cold, so I suppose it’s fitting…
Microfinance: Empowering or exploiting the poor?
We’ve all heard about microfinance, the practice of giving small loans to the poor to boost their small businesses. Muhammed…
The next big thing (pause) in sex: female condoms
Once upon a time, not that long ago actually, most American women didn’t use tampons. After they had been invented and introduced as a product, it still took some seventy years for them to gain widespread adoption. People are loathe to change their habits when it comes to intimate parts of the body, even when there are obvious health benefits.
Any innovations at the big conferences this week? “Not really.”
CGI As you probably heard, this week New York City played host to word leaders at the United Nations, celebrities…
Ask a crisis tracker: What happened to Kony?
Last we checked in on the hunt for Joseph Kony, the Ugandan rebel leader notorious for his violence and use of child-soldiers, the Ugandan government had given up on the hunt for him. Now, a top American military official claims they have Kony “in a box” and “on the run.”
Food Justice: Watch what you eat
Anti-GMO protest at Gates FoundationTom Paulson On this week’s podcast, East Coast correspondent Tom Murphy joins Tom Paulson and I…
The US hand in the tragedy on September 11
The 40th anniversary of September 11th is next week. Wait a second, you might be thinking. Weren’t the attacks in…