Beyond the Epidemic: How the Zika Virus Exposed a Social Crisis in Brazil
February 25, 2016 -  No comment

The recent health crisis has turned the spotlight onto social and gender inequality in Brazil   The scenes of the Brazilian...

This Is Why I Say Poverty Is Created
November 14, 2015 -  3 Comments

The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals do not question the role of human agendas and politics in the rise and spread of poverty   It...

Cuba: The Untold Story of Thriving Development
January 21, 2015 -  No comment

Cuba has seen academia divided for years but the exemplary advances being made in education and healthcare in the country...

Visualising Rwanda Reborn
March 31, 2014 -  2 Comments

The ‘Rwanda in Photographs: Death Then, Life Now’ exhibition highlights Rwanda’s new era of development   “You...

Haiti in 2013: A Year of Hope?
January 11, 2013 -  No comment

What does 2013 hold for Haiti as it celebrates its 209th birthday as a free nation and will shortly remember the day that...

At Home on Nepal’s Streets
August 15, 2012 -  2 Comments

Nepal's street children are stigmatised by society, vulnerable to both mental and physical abuse   Himal is six years...

Brazil: Too Green To Grow?
November 21, 2011 -  No comment

The Amazon forest is not only amongst the globe’s most biodiverse sites. These days, it is also centre stage to a fierce,...

Rethinking Global Development
February 1, 2010 -  2 Comments

By Saif Ahmad The world today is at a crisis point, where humanity suffers from disease and hunger.  Gross inequality exists between rich and poor. The potential of the vast majority of the world’s population isn’t merely unexplored, it is curbed.  People are no longer born free, in the literal sense.  The majority of them are, in fact, born with a huge burden of debt, which belongs not to them but to their parents or the nation they are born into. 209