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Hi all,

Welcome from Ottawa where I volition live working remotely for the coming 2 months in addition to hopefully live able to grab upwards alongside Canadian U.S. East Coast friends in addition to colleagues!

This week's review is actually eclectic in addition to various inwards the best important of the concept!

Development news: #AidToo & i rattling misleading statistic; opened upwards missive of the alphabet against Bridge Academies; Apple inwards the Congo; Saudi Arabia's humanitarian PR exercise inwards Republic of Yemen continues; Mongolia & Kyrgyz Republic struggle alongside the IMF; Communist People's Republic of China & its Africa stereotypes; UK media & #globaldev; things falling apart inwards Nigeria; the futurity of photograph journalism; Escobar's goodbye to development.

Our digital lives: Making coin on Untrue-Tube; Steven Pinker; comport on investing: Rhetoric & realities.

Publications: Disempowered women; conflict minerals inwards the Congo; using Twitter for research.

Academia: Race, flat & the H2O crisis inwards Cape Town.

Enjoy!

Development news
Lies, Damned Lies, in addition to One Very Misleading Statistic
Ms. Martin, who has advised the United Nations in addition to other international assist organizations on gender-based violence, said she in addition to her colleagues feared that Mr. MacLeod’s figures would render precisely that form of excuse, distracting from the less splashy but to a greater extent than reliable information that is already available.
“I have got heard so many horrific stories from women that I don’t demand mistaken statistics waved around,” Ms. Martin said. “It discredits the rattling brave women in addition to children who struggle to come upwards frontwards in addition to and so do — unremarkably to disbelief in addition to disinterest.”
Amanda Taub for the NYT on the infamous Andrew MacLeod in addition to his infamous 'statistic' on sexual violence inwards the United Nations system.

'A boys' club': United Nations means defendant over sexual harassment claims
Harper said the deviation of high-profile officials did non exonerate the United Nations of responsibility, in addition to that it had allowed a civilisation of sexual harassment to fester for years. She says she was repeatedly invited to drinks yesteryear Loures, who i time told her she was “a rattling naughty girl” because she had declined an offering inwards South Africa to run into him i nighttime inwards his hotel room. In addition, next a piece of work conference, Loures assaulted her inwards a lift, she said. “We left the conference in addition to shared a elevator together in addition to he attempted to osculate me. In the procedure of me moving away, he bruised my lip. On exiting the elevator he tried to larn me into his hotel room in addition to ripped a push off my shirt.”
Rebecca Ratcliffe for The Guardian alongside to a greater extent than on #AidToo from within the United Nations system.

Open missive of the alphabet – 88 organisations urge investors to cease back upwards for Bridge International Academies
In an opened upwards missive of the alphabet published today, 88 civil enterprise organisations have got urged investors to cease their back upwards for the multi-national for-profit chain of individual schools Bridge International Academies (BIA), which runs over 500 schools inwards Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Uganda, in addition to India.
These organisations are calling investors’ attending to a serial of concerning practices yesteryear BIA in addition to the associated legal in addition to reputational risks they incur. These practices include lack of transparency, poor labour conditions, in addition to non-respect of the dominion of police draw inwards host countries. Investors inwards BIA make from well-known individual investors such equally the Omidyar Network, the Zuckerberg Education Ventures, in addition to Bill Gates to world State agencies from the USA, the United Kingdom, France, Norway, the Netherlands, in addition to the European Union.
According to the letter, BIA has been acting inwards defiance of the police draw in addition to has a negative comport on on the correct to teaching of thousands of children inwards countries of Africa in addition to other regions.
The Global Initiative for Economic, Social, in addition to Cultural Rights shares an opened upwards letter, creating to a greater extent than debate on the comport on of Bridge academies in addition to for-profit teaching inn Africa.

Apple wants to purchase cobalt straight from the supplier, inwards a dry reason where the middleman is inwards charge
If Apple is to go straight to the supplier, it volition probable do goodness the likes of Glencore, spell cobalt profits do trivial to meliorate the country’s economy. Congolese policymakers are already considering increasing the royalties mining companies must pay to export cobalt. If that police draw takes effect, companies alongside a longstanding presence inwards the DRC volition in all probability uncovering a way to piece of work just about it. Thanks to a bargain similar the 2012 articulation understanding alongside the DRC’s national electricity supplier, Société Nationale d’Électricité, Glencore “contributed” $389 1000000 equally a loan to meliorate the electricity grid, according to the results report. The province repays the loan through granting electricity discounts.
Lynsey Chutel for Quartz on value chains in addition to global commodities; regard also a novel research article below on 'conflict minerals' in addition to peacebuilding.

'A cynical PR exercise': critics circular on $3.5bn project design to allay Republic of Yemen suffering
Catanzano said: “The Saudi-led coalition is offering to fund a response to address the comport on of a crisis it helped to create. The astute crisis inwards Republic of Yemen needs to a greater extent than than what appears to live a logistical operations plan, alongside token gestures of humanitarian aid.
“A meaningful response to the world’s largest humanitarian crisis requires to a greater extent than access – non less. At best, this project design would shrink access in addition to innovate novel inefficiencies that would ho-hum the response in addition to maintain assist from the neediest Yemenis, including the over 8 1000000 on the brink of starvation.
“At worst, it would dangerously politicise humanitarian assist yesteryear placing far besides much command over the response inwards the hands of an active political party to the conflict.”
Peter Beaumont for The Guardian on humanitarian assist inwards an historic catamenia of PR agencies...

Mongolia in addition to Kyrgyz Republic lose out inwards their struggle alongside the International Monetary Fund over the targeting of kid benefits
The widespread unpopularity of targeting inwards Mongolia volition live a threat to the stability of the Government. As has happened inwards other countries, equally a outcome of existence forced to target the poor, the Government’s popularity volition live hit. Indeed, it may lose the adjacent election since whatever sensible opposition volition create on the reason of reintroducing universality. It is also highly probable that, equally alongside other poverty-targeted benefits, due to the unpopularity of the schemes, over fourth dimension the budgets in addition to value of the transfers volition fall, thereby farther harming those living inwards poverty.
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It seems clear that the International Monetary Fund in addition to its partners are interfering inwards national policy discussions in addition to using their powerfulness to influence decisions in addition to subvert democracy. It is also worrying that the balance of the international community – including key United Nations agencies which purport to back upwards inclusive social protection – appear to have got remained still despite the IMF’s actions clearly harming children in addition to families inwards both countries. We should await to a greater extent than from them, equally should Kyrgyz Republic in addition to Mongolia, both of which should live able to aspect to the United Nations to protect them from exterior threats.
Stephen Kidd for Development Pathways alongside a reminder that the IFIs are all the same powerful institutions despite the debates virtually their futurity in addition to mandate.

China’s media struggles to overcome stereotypes of Africa
This suggests that Communist People's Republic of China needs to have got a conversation virtually racial insensitivity, which is besides mutual in addition to besides ofttimes dismissed equally cultural specificity. The cultural specificity declaration goes similar this: spell something mightiness live considered offensive inwards the “West” (for example, blackface), it is non inwards China, and, therefore, at that topographic point is no demand to experience offended yesteryear it.
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If Communist People's Republic of China wants to live viewed equally a responsible global actor, it needs to uncovering appropriate ways to foreclose controversies such equally the i created yesteryear the offensive CCTV skit. It could, for example, seek out African specialists at Chinese universities to offering practiced advise.
More importantly, when errors are made – in addition to Chinese leaders demand to choose that nobody is infallible – Beijing needs to live create to admit them.
Dani Madrid-Morales for The Conversation follows upwards on terminal week's debate just about stereotypes during the large novel year's gala.

UK media in addition to the great assist debate
From the latest Oxfam sexual practice abuse scandal, to the ascent of individual contractors, to the determination of the U.K. to leave of absence the European Union, to the determination to pass to a greater extent than assist through other regime departments, how is assist changing nether the influence of the media? Is conservative media destroying world trust inwards aid? Are antiaid campaigns working, in addition to how are nonprofit in addition to for-profit communications strategies evolving equally a result? What recourse do assist organizations have got when negative press coverage turns political? Who speaks for aid?
Molly Anders for DevEx introduces an interesting novel serial on debating #globaldev inwards the media-I just wonder whether nosotros within the bubble overestimate the full general involvement inwards evolution topics in addition to the powerfulness of 'the media'.


Things Fall Apart
A feat of elegant pattern wowed elite architects in addition to promised to choose teaching to poor children inwards Nigeria. Then it collapsed.
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This ending is unsatisfying, poetic, in addition to true. Change is never linear, humans are always contradictory, in addition to answers are rarely easy. “The coin is literally just sitting there,” Etomi told me. Meanwhile, inwards Makoko, schoolhouse years pass; children grow.
Allyn Gaestel for Atavist Magazine. I literally posted the rattling first of all in addition to halt of this fantastic long-read-you demand to hope me to read the materials betwixt those quotes!

The powerfulness of a unmarried frame: photojournalism in addition to global consciousness
Despite the importance of photojournalism, it is unclear what the futurity of the manufacture volition be, in addition to what piece of work photojournalism tin play inwards addressing some of today’s greatest challenges – environmental degradation, climate change, ecosystem collapse in addition to their comport on on humankind.
Today, to a greater extent than than one-half the world’s population has access to the Internet in addition to billions of photos – existent in addition to imitation – are shared online everyday. Audiences are to a greater extent than immune to the powerfulness of images, in addition to less probable to trust images they know mightiness have got been manipulated.
The great photographs of the yesteryear were made inwards a fourth dimension when newspapers provided the world’s tidings feed, when readers waited alongside bated breath for the morn in addition to afternoon editions to hitting the stands. They were made when crises were relatively contained inwards fourth dimension in addition to space, in addition to when paper budgets were bursting. Today’s global challenges are increasingly complex, intertwined in addition to multilayered; capturing those intricacies, providing actions to address them in addition to maintaining the world’s attending at the same fourth dimension is an increasingly hard task.
Katie G. Nelson for the Global Challenges Foundation on the uncertain futurity of photograph journalism.

Farewell to Development
About a twelvemonth ago, I attended a coming together inwards Bogotá alongside the Minister of the Environment virtually the Pacific Coast, a rainforest part rich inwards biodiversity in addition to populated largely yesteryear dark in addition to indigenous peoples. For 30 years, research in addition to strategies to “develop” the expanse have got centered on large-scale evolution interventions, such equally the expansion of stone oil palm plantations, mining, in addition to large port development. Against this backdrop, poverty, inequality, in addition to violence have got deepened. To say the occupation facing the region—and other parts of Latin America—is lack of evolution is fundamentally flawed. At that meeting, I argued that nosotros should dare to opposite the picture: to entertain the thought that the occupation of this region, is non underdevelopment but, inwards fact, excessive development. Recognizing this opens possibilities for novel thinking based on option notions of human in addition to ecological well-being.
Arturo Escobar inwards an interview alongside The Great Transition Initiative. Great reading on his post-development thinking in addition to how timely the concept all the same is.


Our digital lives
Untrue-Tube: Monetizing Misery in addition to Disinformation
The solely gaming hither appears to live using tragic events for automated content monetization. The volume shootings inwards detail are specially troubling: the experiences of the to the lowest degree fortunate amid us — including tragedy survivors, children, in addition to their families— are existence used to algorithmically turn a profit from the most impressionable.
Jonathan Albright alongside an of import long-read on how 'fake news' on YouTube are non just a nuisance, but are deeply embedded inwards all sorts of concern models in addition to monetization efforts-so don't trust Google/Alphabet when they speak virtually 'responsibility', allow lone a few tweaks inwards the algorithms!

Steven Pinker Wants You to Know Humanity Is Doing Fine. Just Don’t Ask About Individual Humans.
There’s a noble heart to Pinker’s project. He wants to discourage the form of fatalism that leads people to retrieve the solely way frontwards is to tear everything down. But he seems surprisingly blind to how he fuels such fatalism yesteryear playing to the worst stereotype of the enlightened cosmopolitan: disdainful in addition to condescending — sympathetic to humanity inwards the abstract but impervious to the suffering of actual human beings.
Jennifer Szalai reviews Steven Pinker's volume for the NYT.

Wealth Inequality in addition to The Fallacies of Impact Investing
And equally philanthropies in addition to their fund managers query whether their investment translates to uppercase additionality or displacement, innovators such equally Tomás Durán, Aaron Tanaka, in addition to Jessica Norwood — who drive innovations similar worker ownership to save character jobs inwards low-wealth communities, community-controlled capital, in addition to investment vehicles that straight address the racial wealth gap — receive trivial to no investment at all: traditional, impact, or philanthropic. H5N1 important delta exists betwixt what mainstream comport on investors deem equally investable in addition to the cash-strapped innovations coming from communities throughout the country.
The questions nosotros inquire today are besides narrowly focused on technocratic concerns similar “How do nosotros larn to a greater extent than deals done?” instead of “How do nosotros foster equality, transfer power, in addition to enable community wealth through our capital?”
Rodney Foxworth for Balle Views on the discourse in addition to realities just about 'impact investing'.

Publications
Poorly paid, backbreaking jobs on top of caring for families leave of absence women drained non empowered
Most women inwards the study reported physically punishing working days that involved travelling important distances betwixt dwelling in addition to work, ofttimes carrying heavy loads, in addition to incurring injuries. With no fourth dimension to balance betwixt piece of work in addition to caring for children in addition to other occupation solid unit of measurement members their ain wellness in addition to wellbeing ofttimes comes last. However, women dig deep into personal in addition to social reserves in addition to send on, because of the economical necessities they in addition to their families face.
Deepta Chopra alongside a novel IDS Working Paper.

Unintended consequences or ambivalent policy objectives? Conflict minerals in addition to mining reform inwards the DR Congo
The study finds that the policies hinge on 2 seemingly commensurate objectives, varying betwixt conflict-free sourcing in addition to promoting peace. We uncovering that, inwards reality, these objectives may non align. We also uncovering that much reform practise is geared towards conflict-free sourcing, in addition to is far less appropriate for promoting peace. This includes the vogue to implement the policies inwards conflict-free zones, their narrow scope, the reliance on the regime in addition to their indifference to the comport on of the reforms for poor miners. The findings propose that exercising due diligence has larn a destination inwards itself. This raises the query of whether giving buyers a clear conscience in addition to developing a traceable in addition to conflict-free production has received to a greater extent than prominence than has contributing to improving the province of affairs of the Congolese population.
Jose Diemel in addition to Thea Hilhorst alongside a novel opened upwards access article inwards the Development Policy Review.

Chapter 4 Using Twitter equally a Data Source: An Overview of Ethical, Legal, in addition to Methodological Challenges
This chapter provides an overview of the specific legal, ethical, in addition to privacy issues that tin arise when conducting research using Twitter data. Existing literature is reviewed to inform those who may live project social media research. We also nowadays a number of manufacture in addition to academic instance studies inwards monastic tell to highlight the challenges that may arise inwards research projects using social media data. Finally, the chapter provides an overview of the procedure that was followed to gain ethics blessing for a Ph.D. projection using Twitter equally a primary rootage of data. By outlining a number of Twitter-specific research instance studies, the chapter volition live a valuable resources to those considering the ethical implications of their ain research projects utilizing social media data. Moreover, the chapter outlines existing piece of work looking at the ethical practicalities of social media information in addition to relates their applicability to researching Twitter.
Wasim Ahmed alongside an opened upwards access volume chapter.

Academia
Together inwards Crisis: the Politics of Day Zero inwards Cape Town
Water scarcity in addition to inequality are on the ascent globally. By putting these 3 vignettes into alignment, I wishing to propose that racial in addition to economical inequality is non erased inwards the confront of disaster, but potentially exacerbated, in addition to that conservation in addition to crisis planning must centre marginalized voices inwards monastic tell to live effective. Any attempts to compel collective activeness inwards the confront of H2O crisis volition band hollow without acknowledgement of, in addition to accounting for, the differential comport on of global climate modify on the poor. While wealthier, whiter residents of Cape Town frantically conform to tracking their H2O use, desperately hoping to avoid twenty-four hours zero, for many twenty-four hours null arrived a long fourth dimension ago. One suspects much of this urgency is motivated yesteryear a fear, rather than a belief, that nosotros are actually “all inwards this together”.
Melissa K. Wrapp for Platypus shares some of import anthropological reflections on race, flat & the H2O crisis inwards Cape Town.

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