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Graduate of University of Oregon in International Studies and French, Haley has spent two years living (and eating) in France. She spent a summer in Middlebury, VT learning Arabic, العربية, and plans on living in Damascus, Syria in the future. Photo: Happy in Rotterdam.

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Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion
Syria Comment
Rethink Afghanistan
Chris Blattman Blog

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Recent Posts

Feb 24, 2010 - Sustainabiliy Continues to Elude MVP Site in Koraro
Jan 27, 2010 - Journalism Gives Voice to Untouchable Women
Dec 10, 2009 - Liberia Ordered to Pay $20 Million to Vultures
Nov 25, 2009 - Buying Green is Taking Hold Once Again
Nov 20, 2009 - Iraq: Can There Be Peace Without Jobs?
Nov 16, 2009 - William Kamkwamba: Malawi's Boy Wonder
Nov 4, 2009 - Microfinance Leaders on the Global Economic Crisis, Women, and For-Profit Lending
Oct 19, 2009 - Drought, Dams Threaten Iraq's Marsh Arabs
Sep 30, 2009 - Mines in Mongolia
Sep 22, 2009 - 'The World's Last Gulag'


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'Quiet Corruption' Hurting Africa's Poor

San Francisco Chronicle - Mon, 03/15/2010 - 09:22
A World Bank report says teachers and other public servants who don't show up for work are fueling "quiet corruption" throughout Africa that is disproportionately hurting the continent's poor.

Industrial Output Up; Hopes For Factories Grow

NPR - Mon, 03/15/2010 - 08:45
Industrial production edged up 0.1 percent in February, beating expectations and marking the eighth straight monthly increase.

Cash For Work and Planning for the Future

Mercy Corps Blog - Sun, 03/14/2010 - 23:23
Two Mercy Corps workers talk with 62-year-old Rosemarie Joseph in her makeshift tent at the Lycée Jean-Marie Vincent displacement camp in Port-au-Prince.

Price Gap Spices Sugar Fight

Wall Street Journal - Mon, 03/15/2010 - 19:42
The battle over U.S. sugar quotas is flaring once more as the gap between domestic and much-lower global prices reaches its widest level in at least a decade.

Ushahidi - Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley

International Herald Tribune - Sun, 03/14/2010 - 12:08
A small Kenyan-born Web site is bringing crowdsourcing to disaster relief and other humanitarian causes.
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