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Hi all, We have a full #globaldev reading schedule this week! From Plexiglass to child soldiers, from MSF to UN & FCDO, from Bolivia to Bangladesh & so much more! Enjoy! My quotes of the week These institutions were designed under colonialism and they remain in key respects colonial in character. (Apartheid in the World Bank and the IMF) The first priority of the FCDO’s strategy should be to ensure the UK lives up to its values domestically and in its relations with other countries, if it wishes to have its efforts taken seriously. (To promote open societies globally, the FCDO must be more realistic, politically savvy and self-aware) In a younger, angrier, increasingly impatient world, a distant club of men in dark suits is doomed to irrelevance. Where the UN matters is on the ground, deploying its remarkable mandate to fight for those who need it most. (Slow Death or New Direction for the UN?) As we deploy more and more plexi barriers to support our own purity and security,