- Floods in north Queensland, a summer of bushfires around Australia, and one of the worst droughts in living memory have pushed some Australians to ask for a cut in spending on foreign aid and to help Australians “first and foremost”.
- Morten Wendelbo discusses the reason behind Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s decision to block foreign aid from entering Venezuela at the very time of desperate need.
- Samuel Okiror reports that in Uganda, massive deforestation by refugees from South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo has sparked clashes with the local population.
- David Evans tries to explain why (micro)economists don’t conduct cost-analysis in their impact evaluations.
- Federico Costa and Albert Ko made an interesting discovery while studying health issues in a Brazilian favela. They found out that the population stricken by dengue was protected against the Zika virus.
- In Addis Ababa, only 10% of residents are connected to the sewerage system. As a result, the local water supply and sewerage authority decided to build shared sanitation facilities. Seema Thomas extracts five takeaways from this successful project.
- Seema Jayachandran, a professor of economics at Northwestern University, presents on gender inequality in India and what to do to solve it.
- Another podcast: Alice Evans’ Four Questions with Harvard professor Gautam Rao who talks about how behavioural insights can help with development economics.
- Here is a touching story about one Yemeni baby that made it against all odds.
Aid links: calls for Australia first, the upside of dengue, more
Why refugees cutting down trees has led to strife in Uganda, plus more stories from the aid and development sector.
Published 20 Feb 2019
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