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• Do NGOs provide relief or development?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Development agencies cannot hope to bring about lasting change in the communities in which they work. They can only provide short-term relief, argues Karen Treasure Boreholes and basic health or education services do not and cannot represent "development" even in the most expanded interpretation of what development ...
  6 days ago

• Military Spending and Development Aid

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 433
  View This Poll survey software The correct answer is here . A comparison between aid spending and military spending for a selection of countries is  here . I should add that I believe development aid is very important, but I don’t believe that it can solve all problems, that it doesn’t create problems , ...
  6 days ago

• Queen’s speech to parliament: some shiny nuggets for aid and climate change?

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 137
  Outside the UK parliament. Credit: Olivier Bruchez When I think about the Queen’s speech - which in truth I don’t do very often - I think of Christmas and feeling sleepy on the couch, while she chats away about what the kids have been up to. Most people don’t think of her annual pilgrimage to open parliament ...
  1 week ago

• The Recession and Reverse Remittances

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 433
  I’ve discussed the negative effects of the current economic recession on human rights several times before on this blog. I’ve focused on the right not to suffer poverty , because that’s obviously one human right that is particularly affected by the recession, but I also mentioned other rights (see here , ...
  1 week ago

• What was the point of the world summit on food security?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  There may not have been a commitment from delegates at the FAO world summit on food security to substantially increase aid for agriculture, but that wasnt the point, said the head of the IFAD Any thoughts that the world summit on food security , held in Rome this week, was a waste of time (and money) in the absence ...
  1 week ago

• Corruption Index today, Development Aid Reform tomorrow?

  
  The Kaufmann Governance Post — Authority: 100
  Transparency International (TI) , the international anti-corruption NGO, just released its annual corruption perceptions index (CPI).  No big surprises. This is no surprise.  Corruption does not tend to change dramatically from one year to the next.  Yet it is certainly worth reviewing the new data. ...
  1 week ago

• How do you manage expectations in Katine?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  As the article about Mary Amulo and her husband illustrates, doing development raises expectations. But how do you make sense of them in a place like Katine, asks Ben Jones The sociologist Norman Long describes development as an "encounter". For him a project involves people from very different worlds - the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Two years on, Katine offers much to celebrate – and much to feel frustrated about

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The scale of poverty in rural Africa remains hard to grasp, yet the human connection, so elusive at home, is palpable Every time I visit Katine , in north-east Uganda, an image remains in the mind for months afterwards. In May, it was a long queue of girls laughing and chatting as they waited at a dirty water pump ...
  4 weeks ago

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