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It Takes a Village
What do you do if you're a country that can't afford a big public infrastructure project? If you're Tajikistan, you ask your own citizens to chip in.In Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe, the mayor has...
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Tajikistan's Hidden Economy
Tajikistan has the highest remittance rate in the world — a recent World Bank report says that around half of the Central Asian country's money comes from workers abroad. But a weakened economy in...
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Tajikistan's Baby Black Market
Cash for babies is becoming more common-place than you might expect in Tajikistan, according to the BBC. In one of the poorest and most conservative nations in Central Asia, more than 64 percent of the...
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Responding to the Global Food Crisis
The following post is from One Table, a Mercy Corps campaign to fight world hunger by investing in the world's women.Today almost a billion people worldwide are unable to buy or grow enough food to...
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Long-Distance Divorce: For Migrant Tajiks, It's As Simple as a Text
Technology, migrant labor, and patriarchy: three world systems that bring benefits to some have become a tragic combination for the Tajik women whose husbands are divorcing them remotely via text...
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Tajik Women 'Left Behind'
More than half of Tajikistan's labor force works abroad, which gives them the highest remittance-rate in the world. Men will often leave their wives and children for years at a time. These "left...
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19 Ways We Innovate: Winners Announced
And the winner of Mercy Corps’ internal innovations competition is...(drumroll, please)... Ethiopia! Despite—or very well perhaps because—of the massive drought that's hit the Horn of Africa, community...
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19 Ways We Innovate
Reporting in collaboration with Yadira Gutierrez.More than 800 staff members in 47 countries cast a vote for their favorite innovation. Which is your favorite?Photo: Erin Gray/Mercy Corps.1. WINNER -...
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In Tajikistan, promise and problems for solar disinfection
Purifying drinking water by putting it in plastic bottles on the roof in the sun sounds simple. But unless people understand how the process works and know when the water is ready to drink, they stay...
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