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Global Ideas News Brief: Food for a growing African economy

A weekly round-up of mainstream news about the context in which Mercy Corps works, focused on economic development and innovations.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Safer cities

A weekly round-up of mainstream news about the context in which Mercy Corps works, focused on economic development and innovations.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Haiti's earthquake anniversary

A weekly round-up of mainstream news about the context in which Mercy Corps works, focused on economic development and innovations.

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Mobile Technology

High hopes in Haiti: Mobile money’s rise and fall (and rise again)

Far beyond texting, mobile phones present many opportunities for development in Haiti -- if agencies can convince mobile phone users that it’s a good idea.

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Value Chains

Quotable: Africa-- Seeing past the headlines

Elizabeth Littlefield argues that we promote two starkly different images of sub-Saharan Africa and overlook the true opportunities this diverse continent has to offer.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Food security and oil

A weekly round-up of mainstream news about the context in which Mercy Corps works, focused on economic development and innovations.

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Value Chains

Quotable: Stop making the same mistakes

Paul Farmer, "the man who would cure the world," has several things to say about our handling of the Ebola epidemic.

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Global Ideas News Brief

A weekly round-up of mainstream news about the context in which Mercy Corps works, focused on economic development and innovations.

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Value Chains

Ebola: More Than a Health Crisis

Why has a health crisis pushed so many people into hunger, and how can we prevent the catastrophic consequences?

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Global Ideas News Brief: A critical look at aid

A weekly round-up of mainstream news about the context in which Mercy Corps works, focused on economic development and innovations.

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Social Enterprise

Polio Surge in Pakistan: A cautionary tale for global health

On the 50th anniversary of Jonas Salk's discovery of a vaccine against polio, the disease has faded from the headlines - but a flare-up in Pakistan proves that polio is not going quietly.