Category: Aid

How We Know It鈥檚 Christmas Time

黑料社区Leave a comment

6566803151_a5b2bbfc82_o.jpg

As Christmas approaches and the infamous Band Aid charity song resurfaces on radios, in supermarkets and in malls, so do old and harmful stereotypes of poor people living in oblivious destitution, in need of a foreigner鈥檚 donation to help them escape poverty. These stereotypes portray the poor as passive recipients of aid and poverty as a phenomenon disconnected from structural political and economic processes. In recent years, alternative charity awards – the – have been organized every December. This is聽 a concerted effort to counteract the negative stereotypes perpetuated by many charity videos and songs.Read More »

Global Development Goals: If at All, Why, When and How?

Ingrid Harvold KvangravenLeave a comment

MillGoals01.jpg

By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

Last week, the 鈥淪ustainable Development Goals鈥� (SDGs) were launched at the UN in New York. This is the outcome of two years of consultations, lobbying, and debate about what the should look like. The assumption has been that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were a huge success and that we, therefore, must proceed with a new round. Unfortunately, this assumption is not backed by empirical evidence.

Read More »