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Aid & development links: Gayle Smith, disaster risk, aid confessions and more

Published 4 May 2015 Follow @StephieDunstan

President Obama nominates Gayle Smith to lead US AID.
India cancels licenses of nearly 9000 charities (including Greenpeace India and the Ford Foundation) for failing to declare details of donations from abroad.
Confessions of an aid worker: 'after years in the field, I worry I have lost my compassion.'
Iraq now has one of the highest populations of internally displaced people in the world.
New report from Devex: what you need to know about emerging donors (China, Brazil, Russia, India, Turkey, UAE, South Africa, South Korea).
Confused about aid acronyms and lingo? A handy guide produced by IRIN.
With the terrible tragedy in Nepal, a startling graphic below from ODI on how little of the overall international aid budget is spent on #DisasterRiskReduction: 0.4%.

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