What’s the haps in Busan
Busan is the second largest city in South Korea and one of the world’s biggest port cities. If you knew…
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Bill Gates hands in his foreign aid report to G20. Gets a B+
Bill Gates at World Health AssemblyUN Bill Gates, who according to Forbes is the fifth most powerful person in the…
Land rush update: Uganda displaces 22,000 poor farmers to plant trees
The ongoing trend of foreign investors purchasing massive tracts of land in poor countries isn’t getting much media attention in…
Why do aid workers like to cut off their nose to spite their face?
I’ve always liked that phrase, about cutting off your nose to get back at your face. It’s both wonderfully absurd…
Owen Barder: Should we pay less for vaccines?
Owen Barder, a development expert at the Center for Global Development, asks “Should we pay less for vaccines?” Barder’s post…
Gates Foundation’s global vaccinations scheme too friendly to drug industry, critics say
Vaccines are “miracles,” Bill Gates likes to say, because of their power to prevent death and disease so simply and…
Guardian: Time to abandon the democracy vs dictatorship debate?
The Guardian has published this very thought-provoking article arguing we need to stop thinking so simplistically when it comes to…
Deworming pills, goats, chickens and other great global health holiday gift ideas
I had been compiling a list of gift ideas aimed at fighting poverty and improving health in poor countries, but…
G20 accomplishes “little of substance”
Wow, that sure seemed like a whole lot of nothing.
USAID Branding: Pressure still on to end the dangerous desire for self-promotion
It may be off the headlines now, but the pressure remains on USAID from many prominent NGOs like World Vision,…