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Stefan Dercon: Innovative but dull: disaster insurance is starting to pay off

OXFORD, Sept. 11, 2017 -Stefan Dercon is Chief Economist at DFID, Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University and co-author, with Daniel Clarke, of “Dull Disasters: how planning ahead will make a difference”, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press Hurricanes and an earthquake have caused havoc across the Caribbean […]

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Shattered war economy encourages child marriage in Yemen

TAIZ, Feb. 16, 2017 – It’s impossible to get hard numbers, but child marriage appears to be on the rise in Yemen: a consequence of the extreme poverty caused by nearly two years of devastating war in what was already one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. Parents are becoming increasingly […]

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Analysis: Climate change and mass migration: a growing threat to global security

DHAKA, Jan. 19, 2017 – When international leaders met in the Bangladeshi capital last month for ongoing discussions about a new global migration policy, they glossed over what experts say will soon become a massive driver of migration: climate change. “The international system is in a state of denial,” said A.N.M. Muniruzzaman, a retired major-general who […]

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“Sanctuary cities” get ready to resist Trump deportations

CHICAGO, Jan. 17, 2017 – The phones haven’t stopped ringing at The Resurrection Project since 8 November, when Donald J. Trump was elected the next president of the United States. “People are just terrified,” says Erendira Rendon, national projects director for this community-based organisation in Pilsen, a lively, majority-Hispanic neighbourhood on Chicago’s Lower West Side. […]

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Time to get tough on human trafficking and sex slavery

NEW YORK, NY, Sept. 12, 2016 – After Amira’s husband was killed in the Syrian war, she found herself adrift in Lebanon. Barred from working and with two young children to feed, she resorted to marrying off her nine-year-old daughter and putting her 12-year-old son to work. Amira is not a real person but her […]

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