Articles, tagged with "risk reduction", page 1

You wouldn't know it from first glance at the leafy, wide streets of Islamabad - but one quarter of Pakistan is under water. But look a little closer – at the hastily printed sign at customs welcoming "respected donors," at the roadside billboards solicit...

Poverty has few benefits other than awakening personal ambitions and making people realistic about how the world works. Those are things, of course, that can be learned in many different ways without having to experience deprivation. On the other hand,...