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Cross-posted at Change.org’s Global Poverty blog: Last week my Google Reader account was bombarded by posts about a guy named Jason, his idea to help the “people of Africa” with donated t-shirts and a steady stream of corresponding outrage from aid professionals and observers. Here is the go-to link for all things shirt-gate. Here is my 140-character [...] Cross-posted at Change.org’s Global Poverty Blog. When the Millennium Development Goals were adopted in 2000, the urban slum population was 767 million. Today, it’s estimated that this figure has increased in absolute terms to 828 million in the last decade. My laptop calculator tells me this is 61 million additional slum dwellers. In other news, the Millennium [...] My new twitter list for global health and development: glohd A few months back I wrote an article responding to people who were comparing the economy of SecondLife to that of developing countries like Burundi, Liberia, DRC and Zimbabwe. My argument was that there is simply no scarcity in a virtual world, making any comparison null and void. However, because SecondLife (and games like it) [...] |
I am an Associate in the Poverty, Gender and Youth Program at the Population Council and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Public Health in the New York University Master's Program in Global Public Health. 
 
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