By admin on Jul 13, 2011 in Climate Change, Development Aid, Hunger and Poverty, News Clippings | 0 Comments
A very interesting reading about another reprehensible facet of the climate change issue. Essentially, as Rezaul Karim Chowdhury says “By pushing climate loans, the UK is making people in countries like mine pay twice for climate change, even though we played virtually no part in causing the problem.” In Climate Loan Sharks, the World Development Movement [...]
By admin on Jul 9, 2011 in Climate Change, Development Aid, Hunger and Poverty, News Clippings | 0 Comments
Guardian.co.uk This week in Cape Town, the World Bank will decide whether to approve new climate adaptation loans for five countries. In Bangladesh and around the world, campaigners are resisting these loans and urging their governments not to accept new debt for climate change. More than 50 organisations from countries due to receive the loans [...]
By admin on Dec 5, 2010 in Development Aid, Development Tools, Hunger and Poverty, News Clippings, Rural Poverty in SEA | 0 Comments
Something we picked up while browsing The Economist. Food for thought when planning anti-poverty programmes The Economist CELIA ORBOC, a cake-seller in the Philippines, spent her little stipend on a wooden shack, giving her five children a roof over their heads for the first time. In Kyrgyzstan Sharmant Oktomanova spent hers buying flour to feed [...]
By admin on Aug 24, 2010 in Development Aid, News Clippings | 3 Comments
Here’s an interesting graphic outlining a “taxonomy” of the much discussed practice of “poverty tourism”. Update: Aaron Ausland, the author, has recently updated the graphic which i think added some context and made it more meaningful. Read more here…
