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Tag: Aid

Is aid from the richest countries really at a record high?

13/01/2023 - Leave a Comment

Aid from the world’s biggest donors is reaching record levels, according to the latest assessments. But as usual, there’s nuance behind the numbers. Official development assistance (ODA) from the world’s …

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Brazilians thrown back into poverty as COVID aid dries up

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Tatiana Araujo de Sirqueira, a 33-year-old single mother of six, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are almost neighbours, but they inhabit different universes. Sirqueira lives by a landfill less than …

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Aid millions wasted in Lebanese currency collapse

24/03/202108/05/2021 - Leave a Comment

Millions of dollars in aid to Lebanon are being lost in currency exchange as inflation soars out of control, but internal UN documents and interviews with officials suggest that fixing …

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Colonial economics

17/12/202002/01/2022 - 1 Comment

Post pandemic, which issues need to be added and reincorporated into the development economics curriculum? Kevin Deane asks. There is a strong argument that Covid  is not an external shock …

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UK government’s foreign aid cuts put girls’ education at risk

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The UK government’s 2020 spending review includes a cut in international aid, from 0.7% of gross national income to 0.5%. My research shows that this will have severe effects on …

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Grassroots aid grows in middle-income Chile, as COVID-19 drives new needs

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Up and down the length of Chile, people are turning to soup kitchens for their hunger needs as the coronavirus pandemic broadens inequality after lockdown measures shuttered the informal economy …

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In storm-hit Honduras, a climate crisis drives needs and fuels migration

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As Honduras endures its second major hurricane in as many weeks, international aid agencies and local volunteer groups are scrambling the best responses they can to assist people displaced by …

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“Ebola business” concerns resurface as new Congo outbreak spreads

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As an outbreak of Ebola ratchets up in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s densely forested northwestern province of Équateur, warning signs are growing that corruption problems that dogged the last epidemic, …

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