Unpacking Development

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Global Rich List tries to put your income in perspective by showing where your earnings stand you in a world-wide comparison.  I may feel like a starving student, but apparently I almost make it into the top 10 percent!  It’s a less than thinly veiled attempt to have you donate to CARE, which you can do [...]

Today I read a couple of chapters about ‘conceptualizing poverty’ in the textbooks for my Africa into the 21st Century class.  They prompted me to think again about the role of modernity in development, as I was asked to do in the first year of my studies.  I thought maybe it would be useful to [...]

This week, all the International Development Studies Co-op students who’ve just returned from placement will be showing their photography at Gallery 1265.  Come and check out Our Unwritten Experience.  

Welcome to Unpacking Development!Stop by on your travels through the web to hear more about international development, including: Listings and coverage of development events in and around Toronto Opinion pieces on international issues  Links to interesting resources Critical discussions of charity, humanitarian aid, and recent development innovations About the Authors:Both Mel and I have a [...]

Patience please!  We’ll be online shortly, to experience, translate and critique international development.