Donated goods often not only fail to help those in actual need but cause congestion, tie up resources and further hurt local economies.
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Trump has repeatedly misconstrued the territory as not being part of the United States. But it is.
The $4 billion that foundations are pledging to spend within five years amounts to less than 1 percent of what businesses and governments spend on global warming every year.
Donations to relief efforts tend to dry up within a few months.
Shattered by powerful back-to-back earthquakes, Mexico is facing daunting damages across six states. Now Chiapas and Oaxaca, the country’s two poorest states, which were hit first, fear neglect.
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Head of the Journalism Department, City, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Emergency Planning and Management, UCL
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Professor of Law Emeritus, Vermont Law & Graduate School
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Glenn Family Chair Emeritus of Economics and Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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