- The role of Australia's aid program in the PNG asylum seeker plan is the subject of this powerful piece from Jo Chandler.
- This turned out to be prescient blog post from the Development Policy Centre days before the Rudd-O'Neill announcement.
- How big data can improve the lives of a billion women and girls.
- What will be the no. 1 killer of children aged 5-15 in Africa by 2015? It's (perhaps) not what you think.
- Indian poverty has declined from 37.2% to 22% in the last decade.
- That could be related to India's school lunch program, which despite the recent tragedy, is doing good.
- Meanwhile, property prices in Mumbai's slums are booming. (H/t MR.)
- Regional organisations have become increasingly active in humanitarian interventions over the last two decades.
- From Vietnam, stories on youth environmentalism and rural clean water initiatives.
- Trailer for Warriors, a new documentary about a group of Maasai tribesmen taking up cricket to bring attention to the problems of their society. (H/t @wmyeoh.)
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