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Assistance in the elite cities

DEVELOPMENT: The fact that the big cities have been ruled by elites since their rise during the colonial era is not an argument for overlooking the world's poor. Nevertheless, must we first come to terms with lingering prejudices about urban growth – and ask whether cities can be a solution to the development challenges?
Eilert Berre Ellefsen -

The consequences of urbanization for aid practice

Poverty: Over a billion people, 24 percent of the world's urban population, are today considered slum dwellers. And most refugees do not end up in overcrowded camps in Europe, but as displaced migrants in medium-sized and small cities in Asia and Africa. Aid today has a reluctance to get involved in urban areas and urbanization issues.
Eilert Berre Ellefsen -

What shaped him as a human being

MEMORY: Was the most interesting thing in Thorbjørn Jagland's book overlooked by the critics?
Halle Jørn Hanssen -

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