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Natural Disasters
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Blog Post
July 26, 2016
Financing for humanitarian aid is broken. The costs of rapid- (like cyclones) and slow- (like drought) onset disasters are concentrated in poor, vulnerable countries, with a bill to donors of more than $19 billion last year. But far too often, we wait until crises develop before funding the res...
Multimedia
July 11, 2016
The world was caught off-guard by recent mass movements of refugees and migrants from the Middle East and Africa. But this is not one brief storm to be weathered and forgotten. These mass movements will only continue in coming years as conflict, disasters, extreme poverty, and other hardships displa...
POLICY PAPERS
July 06, 2016
Disaster aid is often too little, too late. Pressure on aid budgets is prompting donors to find ways to handle more crises with less funding. But the current model of discretionary, ex-post disaster aid is increasingly insufficient for these growing needs, and does little to create incentives for go...
ESSAYS
June 16, 2015
In fact refugees and victims of natural disasters account for such a small fraction of the world population, less than half a percent. There is no excuse for not providing adequate timely funding for disasters whose numbers if not locations are relatively predictable. The costs are manageable, or at...
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6:00—7:30 PM
June 04, 2015
Rajesh Mirchandani moderated a discussion and Q&A with RYOT co-founder David Darg following the screening of three short films: Body Team 12, Baseball in the Time of Cholera, and Nepal Virtual Reality.
Darg spent the last decade as a first responder and frontline c...
Blog Post
April 01, 2014
Please take a moment to read the newly released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability." It's a frightening look at the future of our planet, based on the collective volunteer work of dozens of top sci...