All posts matching "Development"

Idea (building off of Duncan McNicholl's idea): use juxtaposing images from APS/JFs/OVS in an HSBC style poster campaign to invade the coffee shop venue and start a discussion/people thinking.


A few months ago, Duncan McNicholl, put up a post on his most recent project - showing that HOW we take photos of people and situations can dramatically affect how the audience views the

I think its time to look at EWB's role as a global organization.

Most of us know about the recent earthquake which has devastated the Haitian capital city; a calamity which has killed untold thousands and will displace and disenfranchise thousands more. I was mulling the implications of this disaster over and over in my head today and i kept wondering: "what is EWB planning on doing

Thought EWB would appreciate this ;)

My fav: "Jeff Sachs used to work on Bolivia and Dambisa Moyo is from Zambia. Therefore aid does not work. Jeff Sachs thinks that aid should be trebled and everybody knows this is a bad idea because he had something to do with free market reforms in Bolivia and then he changed his mind. So he is wrong. Dambisa Moyo says aid causes great harm and

There are thousands of blogs out there, but which ones do you follow? Thought it would be cool to share what blogs we follow, whether development or social-change related, or otherwise!

Here are a few that I check up on frequently (in addition to a number of JF and OVS blogs):

The Parallel Parliament - by MP Glen Pearson; candid, honest, critical insight into

If you are a returned JF or OVS, please read: Funding has been announced for youth from the Global South to attend COP-15 (the UN Climate Change meeting). Flight, accommodation and food is paid for and delegates will be given the opportunity to participate in the COP-15 events.

If you know of anyone who would be interested in applying, please forward them the information contained in

Belgian farmers dumping milk onto their fields to protest low milk prices...

Are we in the west really "developed", or are we in fact OVER-developed, to the point that we will destroy perfectly good food as a protest tactic?

Watch this video from BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8259590.stm
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It's actually kind of sad how much weight EWB has given William Easterly's arguments. A lot of them are based on dramatic oversimplifications, reductionist approaches, and manipulated statistics. In that light, several colleagues and I have launched a website http://billeasterlywatch.wordpress.com/ Bill Easterly Watch: Just Asking that

http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/APCITY/UNPAN002063.pdf

I just finished the essay linked to above that was written by philosopher Thomas Pogge currently of Yale University. I thought I would share as I found the following points interesting:

1. The essay has an

Two perspectives on Chinese aid & enterprise in Africa.

Overnight, I had two friends forward me two separate pieces on China in Africa.
The "China is being a devil" article:

Munk Debate about the effectiveness of foreign aid! Debaters are Stephen Lewis, Paul Collier, Hernando De Soto, and Dambisa Moyo

This is sure to be a great debate! Tickets cost $30 and there are less than 100 left. In order to buy a ticket you must sign up at munkdebates.com then you're good to go! There is also much more information about the debate on that website.

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