- Are digital currencies a plus for poor countries? A podcast from The Guardian discusses how the rise of virtual currencies are helping people embrace e-commerce without the need for centralised banking structures.
- Four years into the Syrian conflict, hundreds of local and diaspora groups are successfully negotiating access and delivering aid to civilians in areas that international agencies are struggling to reach, says a new report from ODI.
- A new essay from LSE anthropologist Jason Hikel on the death of international development.
- These 12 journalists covering aid and development are ones to watch.
- An interesting poll on how much of their budget Americans think is going towards foreign aid.
- Watch this Hans Rosling presentation to the Clinton Global Initiative University on preconceived notions regarding population growth and international development:
Aid & development links: Virtual currencies, Syria, Hans Rosling and more
Published 16 Mar 2015
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