Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
By Rachel Wood Three gunshot wounds helped launch the discovery of a massive corruption scandal in Malawi that has shocked this small landlocked country in southern Africa. While the news of corruption has led to government upheaval and suspended foreign aid, it may have no effect on tourism. Lonely Planet, the travelers’ Bible, recently named […]
By Jacqueline Burns The Crisis By numbers alone, this year’s summer floods in Pakistan have created the largest humanitarian disaster since the founding of the United Nations in 1947. Floodwaters engulfed over twenty percent of the country, ravaging as much as seventeen million acres of farmland (Basu 2010). Over twenty million people were affected by […]