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Manasi Sharma is a recent graduate of the MPH program in Global Health at New York Medical College. She is currently an intern at Mercy Corps for Global Envision. Her future career hopes are to work in International Health and Human Rights Development, especially in women’s rights. Other than humanitarian issues and causes, Manasi enjoys travelling, working with children, cooking, and reading.

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Recent Posts

Sep 8, 2009 - Declining Dates in Iraq
Aug 12, 2009 - Fortifying Foods To Fight Malnutrition in Africa
Jun 9, 2009 - Barbers Shaving Off Their Fears
Jun 3, 2009 - Bangladesh’s Hidden Danger
May 29, 2009 - India's Rural Women Tuning In and Finding Their Voice
May 5, 2009 - Downturn in the Gobi
Apr 30, 2009 - Uganda's New Mobile Technology
Apr 20, 2009 - Is Foreign Aid Helping Or Hurting Africa?
Apr 17, 2009 - Is Your Doctor from India and His Nurse Filipino?
Apr 10, 2009 - Recession-Related Domestic Violence On The Rise


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As Growth Slows, India Awakens to Need for Foreign Investment

International Herald Tribune - Wed, 02/08/2012 - 07:19
India’s central bank and economic analysts predict that growth will fall sharply to 7 percent this fiscal year and remain sluggish.

Social responsibility and a new world order

Washington Post - Innovations - Tue, 02/07/2012 - 07:56
Just before the New Year, the London-based Center for Economics and Business Research announced that Brazil had overtaken the United Kingdom as the world’s sixth largest economy. Furthermore, it predicted that by 2020, India and Russia will also have overtaken all the European economic powers.

Aid for trade policy rears its ugly head

The Guardian's Poverty Matters - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 01:41
The UK government's dismay at not being granted the contract for Typhoon fighter jets in India is an indication that its controversial aid for trade policy is still very much alive.

Liberia's battle to put the lights back on

The Guardian's Poverty Matters - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 23:00
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has set ambitious targets to restore the country's electricity supply. But will it meet them by 2015?

As Africa's consumers rise, so does inequality

Yale Global Online - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 10:17
Kenya struggles to spread the wealth from rapid growth.
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