Articles tagged with: development
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Friday, 29 Mar, 2013
During the ten years since the US-led invasion of Iraq, we have been bombarded by statistics that purport to indicate levels of progress in the country. Statistics and numbers taken on their own do not necessarily translate into human reality, and they can be misleading. As US sports commentator Vin Scully’s ubiquitous saying goes, “Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.”
Mona Chalabi discovered this for herself while working as a human rig...
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Thursday, 2 Aug, 2012
“Time here has speeded up: days have become hours, weeks have become days, months have become weeks, and if you have money...”
Makwan Jelil gestures at his businessman friend, sitting behind the wheel of a $60,000 Toyota Jeep so new that he hasn't yet got round to removing the manufacturer's
protective plastic from the seats and fascia. He hasn't removed the import papers that almost entirely block the view from the rear windows, either. They read 2012 in big letters: newness here is th...
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Wednesday, 11 Jan, 2012
Around two months ago, 170 nations met in Spain for a UN environmental conference and agreed to accelerate a ban on exporting e-waste from rich nations to the developing world....
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Wednesday, 28 Sep, 2011
Earlier this year The Majalla introduced the Falafel Index as a way of looking at how macro-economic policy plays out in daily life. Modeled on The Economist’s Big Mac Inde...
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