War, not drought, is the reason people are starving
CAIDP was invited to attend the Canadian Launch of the World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law. This event featured a presentation by Luis F. Lopez Calva, co-Director of the World Development Report 2017 followed by a panel discussion and a bilingual Q&A session. Find the full document here:
http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2017
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The death of Hans Rosling was greeted with universal sadness in the aid world. It wasn’t just that Rosling was a deeply decent person and a bona fide humanitarian. The aid world loved Rosling because he made aid policy discussions look much more interesting than they actually are.
Thanks to our members for sending in this good summary article from the Centre for International Policy Studies at the UofO that puts development into a larger (Global Affairs Canada) context:
http://www.cepi-cips.ca/2017/02/03/not-all-happiness-on-the-foreign-policy-front/
Good article from the McLeod Group that will be of interest to development practioneers.
The tragedy of Canada’s long absence from the UN is that we haven’t seen ourselves as a member state obligated to fix the very problems we were quick to criticize… We are coming late to the party and must do our homework.
Thanks to member Phil Cox who wanted to share this curated web platform - Cureditor (newsletter@cureditor.com)
Phil says:
"Every week from their base in London a collection of curators compile the attached newsletter with links to what they have found most interesting in their genre - arts, culture, design, media, etc.