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Europe’s great migration illusion: money that creates more problems than it solves →

January 31, 2020 by Oliver Gordon

Money that should be spent on development is increasingly used to curb migration. But it’s time to end the myth that aid stops people moving – because its consequences can be deadly. THE CORRESPONDENT

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January 31, 2020 /Oliver Gordon
migration, europe, development, aid, funding
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Red Cross boosts disaster-prone communities with blockchain 'cash' →

November 27, 2019 by Oliver Gordon

The technology allows slumdwellers and rural villagers with simple mobile phones to effectively create their own local currencies to bootstrap development. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION

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November 27, 2019 /Oliver Gordon
red cross, blockchain, mobile phones, development, local currencies
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Collective transformation in the Amazon →

August 22, 2019 by Oliver Gordon

In the small Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco in Brazil, an arts-as-transformation project is addressing the survival and transformation of both the community and our planet’s most precious and vital natural habitat. ATLAS OF THE FUTURE

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August 22, 2019 /Oliver Gordon
arts, community, development, culture
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