Full video: What will it take to decolonize global development? Devex founder Raj Kumar weighs in

Authors Vinod Rajasekaran & Kylie Adair

Why It Matters

Global inequality is at a high, and so, therefore, is the relevance of humanitarian aid and global development work. But many argue this work has a colonial power imbalance that perpetuates the very inequity it aims to dissolve.

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