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Some cracking gallows humour from India
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‘Aid, corruption, & neighbours in need: A reporter reflects on Somalia’s drought.’ Brilliant piece: ‘When I asked a woman at a camp recently what it felt like being dependent on NGO handouts for years on end, she replied “We feel like we have no soul.”
And one for UK readers…
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Ministerial Whatsapp exchange during Covid. Any resemblance to university or NGO staff meetings is purely accidental of course…
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Self promotion corner:
Podcast: Me burbling on about power and systems on the Goal 4 podcast on Spotify; Apple; Acast
New Development Policy Review paper: IMAGINE’s new water governance model in Goma, DRC (with Tom Kirk, Patrycja Stys & Tom Mosquera)
‘Capitalists, the state and globalization’. Love how Branko thinks (and writes) glineq.blogspot.com/2023/02/capita
Leadership in action. Manchester United’s Casemiro hugs a fan at Wembley, and all the other players follow him.