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Meg Kowalik has been an intern with Global Envision since January 2008. She is currently a student at Lewis & Clark College, majoring in International Affairs. Originally from upstate New York, she has also lived in New Zealand and Switzerland. A rower and a cellist, she harbors a passion for photography and independent music.

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National Public Radio
The New Yorker
Freakonomics
International Relations and Security Network
Chr. Michelson Institute
Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE)
International Crisis Group
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
World Politics Review

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Recent Posts

May 9, 2008 - Poverty Amid Progress in Peru
May 6, 2008 - Fewer Latino Immigrants Sending Remittances
May 1, 2008 - Mining the Congo
Apr 22, 2008 - Declining Dollar Hurts Remittance Recipients
Apr 17, 2008 - Taxing Financial Markets to Aid the Poor
Apr 11, 2008 - Short-Term Crises, Long-Term Hope
Apr 8, 2008 - A Fix for Afghanistan's Drug Problem?
Apr 1, 2008 - Measuring Development By Person, Not Place
Mar 11, 2008 - An Answer to Food-Based Fuels?
Mar 11, 2008 - Making a Bad Situation Worse?


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As Growth Slows, India Awakens to Need for Foreign Investment

International Herald Tribune - Wed, 02/08/2012 - 08:26
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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