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Save to My PortfolioDisaster in Myanmar: Key Challenges for the International Community

Lex Rieffel, May 07, 2008, The Brookings Institution

Disaster in Myanmar: Key Challenges for the International CommunityWith more than a million people killed, missing, or uprooted by the cyclone that struck Myanmar/Burma on May 3, international aid groups and foreign governments are mobilizing food, water and other assistance for the country. Lex Rieffel, who is currently studying the Asian perspective on Myanmar/Burma, addresses some of the key policy challenges. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioHow to Feed North Korea

Roberta Cohen, May 05, 2008, Washington Post

How to Feed North KoreaHunger should know no politics, as President Ronald Reagan declared to justify food aid to Ethiopians starving under a brutal communist regime in the 1980s. Therefore South Korea's criticism of North Korea's human rights record need not prevent its providing food and fertilizer to hungry people in the North. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioA New Face of Hunger Should Prompt a New Approach to Foreign Aid

Noam Unger, May 02, 2008, The Brookings Institution

A New Face of Hunger Should Prompt a New Approach to Foreign AidPresident Bush recently called on Congress to increase U.S. food aid and development programs by $770 million. In a recent op-ed, Noam Unger, senior manager of Brookings’ Foreign Aid Reform Project, discusses how U.S. assistance programs should be strengthened in order to improve the effectiveness of America’s aid during the global food crisis and beyond. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioThe New Philanthropy and Development Aid

Raj M. Desai and Homi Kharas, April 24, 2008, The Brookings Institution

The New Philanthropy and Development AidWhile the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings made recent headlines, the Global Philanthropy Forum, gathering top private aid donors, fell in the shadows. These private aid donors will likely give more aid to the world’s poor this year than the institutions that convened the Spring Meetings. Raj Desai and Homi Kharas compare these two events and discuss how private aid can help to relieve global poverty. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioRising Food Prices: a Global Crisis

Homi Kharas, April 23, 2008, Newshour with Jim Lehrer

Rising Food Prices: a Global CrisisRising food prices partly reflect the spillover from high energy costs, and are causing major problems for poor people. Homi Kharas argues for more development assistance for agriculture production to increase food supplies in the long run as well as for more assistance for sustainable development projects to create jobs and higher wages so that poor people can afford the rising costs of food. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioRising Food Prices and Displacement

Khalid Koser, April 23, 2008, The Brookings Institution

Rising Food Prices and DisplacementAs prices for food continue to rise while supply diminishes throughout the world, Khalid Koser writes that the global food crisis is "likely to have a significant impact on those already displaced." He offers insight into the problem and notes that short-term solutions such as cash transfers, lowering of domestic food prices, and food for work schemes will benefit those who are displaced or poor. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioThe Impact of Rising Global Food Prices

Homi Kharas, February 13, 2008, Marketplace, American Public Media

The Impact of Rising Global Food PricesInternational food prices are rising globally, prompting many countries to adjust tariffs to attract or keep more food domestically. Homi Kharas, Senior Fellow, Wolfensohn Center for Development, recently discussed the tariffs with NPR, noting how policies are impacting production and consumption patterns globally. Read More

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