Jan 12, 2018 | Cities, Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing, Peace & Conflict
The number of people displaced from their homes has reached a grim milestone. In their Global Trends 2015 report, the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, counted 65.3 million people forcibly displaced worldwide. The Syrian conflict has become the largest displacement...
Feb 7, 2017 | Cities, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
In the refugee-hosting countries in Africa, camp-based humanitarian aid has been a default response to the protracted situations of forced displacement. In the anxiety and confusion that has been generated by the US travel ban turmoil, the residents of many refugees...
May 12, 2016 | Blog, Health & Human Security
The first ever World Humanitarian Summit will convene this month in Istanbul. The cost of humanitarian finance and the global refugee crisis are key topics for the governments, agencies and private sector representatives in attendance. But some participants are...
Nov 6, 2015 | Blog, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
The Legatum Insitute, a London-based think tank, does an annual ranking of countries using eight indices. Their 2015 Prosperity Index report has just come out. See the complete Legatum Prosperity Ranking data here. Among the headline findings from this...
Nov 4, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Wellbeing, Operational and Delivery Networks, Platforms, Poverty Alleviation
CloudFactory, the technology outsourcing company based in Kathmandu, connects workers in developing countries with client companies worldwide. The employees benefit from skills training and job creation, and the clients get quick and cost-effective data entry and...
