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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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Youth Skills

What’s in a degree? China vs. India

What does it mean to be one of the world’s only billion-person economies? Well, for one thing: millions and millions of students.

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Youth Skills

Quotable: India's education

In sheer size alone, India’s efforts to improve the quality of its education system will seriously affect the future of global development.

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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.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Typhoon evacuation saves lives

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

International Day for Abolishing Slavery: The Facts

Sixty-five years after the United Nations officially condemned human trafficking, slavery quietly flourishes in every corner of the globe, from Hong Kong to Bangladesh to Russia to, yes, the United States.

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Global Ideas News Brief: International development conundrum

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: Education = jobs

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

Flushing away sanitation problems on World Toilet Day

World Toilet Day brings up the very real consequences of not dealing with this taboo subject.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Poverty Disconnect

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

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Youth Skills

Young leaders create plans for change in the Middle East and North Africa

With lives embedded in regional upheaval, emerging leaders came to Portland and translated their big ideas into do-able social change projects.

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Value Chains

Make your clothes worth wearing: how global brands are (finally) investing in factory workers

Companies have been taking steps to improve workers’ lives in emerging markets for years--this project stands out for involving the biggest of the big brands.

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Youth Skills

African Leaders Summit heats up over questions of growth and trade

Is Africa a place of opportunity for its young people, or just for foreign companies?

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GLOBAL IDEAS NEWS BRIEF: UNLIKELY PARTNERSHIPS + CONFLICT

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

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Youth Skills

Why youth join violent groups

Although most youth do not participate in violence, armed groups across the world are successful at recruiting young people. Conflict specialist Rebecca Wolfe explains why, and how the right youth programming could make a difference.