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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 directly from the site, but it’s a neat tool anyway! Also check out the Toronto initiative, Make Affluence History, which has an interesting take on making poverty history. 

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 talk about it here a little because I think its one of the important places that academic and ‘real life’ understandings of international development differ.
 
When we, as individual Canadians, go to make a donation 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 background in International Development and met while we were students at the University of Toronto, but both have different outlooks and interest (check out our bios here and here).  We hope that Unpacking Development will reflect our diversity and help our readers to …

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