Three decades ago the UK settled on an aid policy that delinked assistance from business interests. That’s now being eroded. Ian Scoones sets out the potential negative consequences of abandoning the aid and trade consensus. If the UK government is not held to account for its aid spending, business imperatives will override development goals geared for the poor.
There’s an outbreak of a deadly infectious respiratory illness in China. It’s in the same family of viruses as the well-known severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), which have killed hundreds of people in the past 17 years. Haitao Guo, Guangxiang Luo and Shou-Jiang Gao reveal that this new deadly pathogen may have originated in snakes.
Today marks the International Day of Education, which celebrates the role of education in fostering peace and development. Here are a couple of new, and previously published, pieces from around the world:
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (centre) with a host of African leaders at the UK Africa Investment Summit in London.
EPA-EFE/Hollie Adams
Ian Scoones, University of Sussex
Trade and investment can help reduce poverty, promote women’s empowerment, and support children’s rights. It can also do the opposite.
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Chinese cobra (Naja atra) with hood spread.
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Haitao Guo, University of Pittsburgh; Guangxiang “George” Luo, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Shou-Jiang Gao, University of Pittsburgh
A new coronavirus related to SARS and MERS has now traveled from China to the United States. A genetic analysis reveals that this deadly pathogen may have originated in snakes.
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Politics + Society
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Jacob Mundy, Colgate University
Can the key external enablers of Libya's conflict also be peacemakers?
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Emma Kluge, University of Sydney
International political dynamics sabotaged West Papuans' attempts to ride the waves of decolonisation efforts by Asian and African countries throughout the 1940s to the 1960s.
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World Education Day
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Kobus Maree, University of Pretoria
There are a few things South Africa needs to do to close the gap between what the education system produces and what the job market needs.
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Hezron Makundi, University of Dar es Salaam
Over the past 30 years China has turned into a major study-abroad hotspot for thousands of African students.
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Louis Volante, Brock University; Francesca Borgonovi, UCL; Jo Ritzen, Maastricht University
Implementing educational policies that promote long-term achievement and attainment is possible, but requires going beyond news headlines.
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Kirsten Roberts Lyer, Central European University
Universities are increasingly under threat everywhere.
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Joyce Esi Bronteng, University of Cape Coast; Ilene Berson, University of South Florida; Michael J Berson, University of South Florida
Inadequate public education on a new language policy has generated resistance from parents at the early childhood education level in Ghana
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Maduabuchi Sennen Agbo, University of Benin
Schools are still not using Nigerian languages to teach students
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En français
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Nicolas Authier, Université Clermont Auvergne
L’usage du cannabis thérapeutique est désormais légal dans de nombreux pays. Après le secteur de la santé humaine, le chanvre pourrait bien partir à l’assaut du marché de la santé animale.
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Fabrice Jaumont, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH) – USPC; Charles Sellen, Indiana University
Historiquement, la Chine a une très ancienne tradition de générosité philanthropique remontant à plus de trois millénaires : quels en sont les enjeux aujourd’hui ?
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