Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
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 […]
by Ina Katherine Cook For the past half century, the African continent has been rife with upheaval in numerous attempts to stabilize nascent institutional structures. Despite these attempts and billions of dollars in international aid, sub-Saharan Africa is still facing a development crisis. Susceptible to disease, treacherous weather, conflict and corruption, southern Africa faces a quandary as to what […]