After completing my master’s degree in International Development Studies, I was looking for a position as an International Development worker. It soon dawned on me that finding a paid position, particularly one in the field, was not easy. One of my fellow students, also a Canadian, mentioned that the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) offered six months long paid internships to enable young people with no prior work experience to gain practical skills in the field of International Development.How can conservation be reconciled with the need for economic development in financially-impoverished but natural resource-rich nations?
To answer this, I'd like you to pick a country, one where in many rural regions 80% of its inhabitants are illiterate, 90% live below the poverty line, and fewer than half have access to water and sanitation infrastructure. They aren’t hard to find. Whatever the country, an inevitable feature will be the gross levels of inequality and access to opportunity that characterize chronic poverty the world over.
