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Aid & development links: Bill Nye, disaster response, Mongolia, Bougainville and more

Stephanie Dunstan
Published 17 Mar 2014 08:19   0 Comments  
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  • Technological innovations are increasingly being used in disaster response. But they can present their own challenges: here's 5 best practices to keep in mind (HT @whydev).
  • On 'Development Drums', Owen Barder talks with Nina Munk about her new book The Idealist, about about Jeffrey Sachs and the Millennium Villages Project.
  • Mongolia has introduced some new laws to help combat human trafficking.  
  • Has the Bougainville economy recovered since the end of violence in 1997?
  • Are OECD donors considering stopping aid to middle-income countries? 
  • President Obama's fiscal year 2015 foreign aid wish list: great overview from Casey Dunning at the Center for Global Development. 
  • Bill Nye, the ‘Science Guy’, a US version of our own Dr Karl, dispels common myths around US foreign aid, including ‘We give money to Africa and nothing changes’ (part of the Bill & Melinda Gates #stopthemyth campaign):

 


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