In the foreign aid seminar at the International Development Department this week, Professor Amis talked about emerging donors in international development assistance. The emergence of new donors including China, the Arab’s countries and the BRICS bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) among others in recent years has changed in what I defined as ‘development’s …
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Urwah Saari
International Development Analyst
In many countries, ethnicity and religion have become one of the important features in the development of a nation. Whether it can be a positive or negative element depending on contexts such as social, culture, religion and tradition. The post-independence era, however, proved to be more difficult for countries which their borders and boundaries were …
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Urwah Saari
International Development Analyst
The recently-concluded 14th general election (GE14) certainly provided hope to Malaysians who have been pursuing change over the years. Besides political parties, there are many civil society and social movement groups, or whatever terms we want to call them,who contributed towards this new Malaysia and this should not be neglected. They have been fighting for …
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Urwah Saari
International Development Analyst
