International Women’s Day 2015

March 8, 2015

When Charito Kruvant and three other women founded Creative in 1977, they knew women could be part of positive change no matter what country they lived in. On International Women’s Day 2015, Charito talks about how Creative has never given up on its quest to empower women as active participants in their schools, communities and economies. ...
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Experts: Mideast youth radicalism is “public health crisis”

January 16, 2015

In refugee camps across Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and other countries, more than 3 million Syrians live in limbo. Especially for those in their teens and twenties, their life plans—education, careers, marriages and families—are suspended while a violent civil war at home rages into its fourth year....
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How Raj Shah reshaped USAID

By Sean C. Carroll

January 8, 2015   |   2 comments

When the U.S. Agency for International Development celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2011, Raj Shah told me and others at the agency, in so many words, that we should make sure USAID doesn’t live to see 100....
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For better Mideast strategy U.S. should “Keep Calm and Carry On”

By James “Spike” Stephenson

December 19, 2014   |   0 comments

The iconic British government poster—Keep Calm and Carry On—issued in 1939 epitomized the resolve that came to be associated with British resilience through six long years of World War II, much of it on the losing end, before victory in 1945....
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