Ethnic Cleansing in a Nobel Laureate’s Backyard
Aung San Suu Kyi’s Complicity in the Persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar In 1991, Aung San...
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Tag: development
Three Weeks in Mumbai
Photo: Sarah Blumberg, the author and her cohort shown in front of the Ashte village Community...
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A Pro-Women Opportunity for U.S. Policymakers
Photo: USAID. This op-ed was first published on The Hill on March 8, 2017. Authors: Catherine...
Read MoreReducing Poverty One Plot at a Time
Urban agriculture is somewhat of a fad in Austin. Drive around in Hyde Park or on the Eastside, and you’ll see small plots behind houses, in empty lots, or near a restaurant, often with a sign advertising an organization...
Read MoreCuts to Aid Are Cuts to Security
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was fond of saying that the Department of Defense has “more people in military bands than (the State Department has) in the Foreign Service.” His observation reveals a...
Read MoreLighting Up a Dark Continent
Take a look at a satellite photo of Africa at night. Apart from a few specks of light over the largest cities, the continent is dark. Millions of rural Africans live without any electrical power at all, and the U.N....
Read MoreTeeing Up for Climate Change
I was asked the other day to name a country that I’d want to be a marketing agent for – spice up their image. I answered with some African state – predictable for an Africanist “do-gooder”...
Read MoreIf They Build It, Who Will Come?
While much of the world continues to languish in a starting and stopping economic recovery, China’s impressive development and economic growth have proceeded with only the slightest of pauses. Its 30-year...
Read MoreTargeting the Truly Vulnerable
When we think of the places that are threatened by climate change, we think of tiny islands on the edge of pulling an Atlantis, coastlines where homes fall into the ocean when the shore erodes or the water levels rise, or...
Read MoreClimate Change … or Not?
In recent articles, I’ve been arguing that America has a teenager’s worst attitude about climate change: We need to stop slouching to our rooms and slamming doors shut, and start engaging developing countries...
Read MoreExplaining NAPAs and Climate Change Adaptation
Developed countries’ aid programs in Africa often center on responding to the challenges created by climate change, such as desertification, coastal erosion, flooding, and myriad other problems affecting food...
Read MoreSimple Solutions > More Money
The world is full of endemic, intractable problems that we as a rich developed nation are asked to help solve: poverty, hunger, health problems, inequality, and more. Our efforts to address these problems through aid have had...
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