Briefs

Sink or Swim

Why Disaster Risk Reduction is central to surviving floods in South Asia

Rising to the humanitarian challenge in Iraq

While horrific violence dominates the lives of millions of ordinary people inside Iraq, another kind of crisis, also due to the impact of war, has been slowly unfolding. Up to eight million people are now in need of emergency assistance.

This figure includes:

• four million people who are 'food-insecure and in dire need of different types of humanitarian assistance'
• more than two million displaced people inside Iraq
• over two million Iraqis in neighbouring countries, mainly Syria and Jordan, making this the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world.

The World is Still Waiting

Broken G8 promises are costing millions of lives

All Costs, No Benefits

How TRIPS-plus intellectual property rules in the US-Jordan FTA affect access to medicines

Signing Away the Future

How trade and investment agreements between rich and poor countries undermine development

Pricing Farmers Out of Cotton

The cost of World Bank reforms in Mali