development

Missionary, Mercenary, Mystic, Misfit: A review

M4 Version 5[4]I’ve been looking around for a good read for the past several months and finding myself dissatisfied with the airport bookstore.

A Global Imperative: Ending Child Malnutrition

Ed note. This is a guest post by Gary Darmstadt, who leads the Family Health Division of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Bringing Nutrition To the Table at the London G8 Summit

Ed note. This is a special guest post from Kolleen Bouchane, Director of ACTION

Not on A-1: Getting Mali’s Child Refugees Back in School

Warfare is disruptive. The economist Paul Collier likes to call it “development in reverse.” And one of the way that war erases hard fought social and economic development gains is by interrupting children’s schooling.

Map of the Day: Flooding in East Africa

Today’s map comes from OCHA. I dare say that this is a huge story that has barely been touched in western media.
 

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