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Blog Post
April 01, 2022
Given the date, I was incredibly tempted to simply replace every hyperlink in today’s emails with Rick Astley singing Never Gonna Give You Up, but had I done so you’d have missed out on gems like this, this and this. There might have been some superb April Fool’s today—I particularly enjoyed Rory St...
Blog Post
February 12, 2018
An increasingly common justification for European development assistance to Africa is the notion that it will reduce migration from the South. While this sounds intuitive and makes for an appealing argument, the research shows that it is highly unlikely. As communities become less poor, more pe...
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September 21, 2017
With more than 145 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, more than 65 million people forcibly displaced, growing risks of climate-driven natural hazards, food insecurity on the rise and four countries struggling to stave off famine, the global humanitarian system faces exceptional chall...