Migrant Resource Ntw

By 2025, the developing world, as we understand it now, will be home to 29 megacities, full of migrant slums. guardian.co.uk/global-develop…

Citystates - How cities are vital to the future of sustainability bit.ly/LFYnz5

'Slum cities' in south Asia need better planning bit.ly/It42c2 via @guardian

RT @ChinaRealTime: A mysterious year-old document, marked "secret work," gives rights to China's migrant workers: on.wsj.com/woVLG2

75% of China migrants don't have contracts with their employers. Ouch. bit.ly/zbT6xN

Excellent org achieving mass-scale change in migrant slums in the Philippines, Gawad Kalinga bit.ly/aokNS

Cheap trick or habit forming strategy? - Chinese Cities Offer Rewards to Promote Good Deeds bit.ly/xn0Ucs

As Spring Festival approaches, gov't urges authorities to ensure #migrants get their pay. 75% w/out contracts. is.gd/zkNaMg

PovertyStat 2of10 | Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put eve… (cont) deck.ly/~oXqWu

Over the last 50 years the global pop living in slums rose from 35 mill to over 1 billion. Expected to keep rising. bit.ly/rTS8sn

RT @cnphilanthropy: New report on Asia philanthropy out from @TheEconomist w/mention of SVG blog and founder @GraceNicolette! is.gd/itJgRR

Mass migration, major problems bit.ly/rq6usP

"Even if migrant jobs are in t risky informal sector, gains to be made can be several times higher than wages in rain-fed agriculture." IMO

What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? NYT nyti.ms/pohHPC

CMC has translated "Beijing Migrant Schools: 20 Years of Change", an interesting read during tumultuous time bit.ly/n0KBnv

Weekly roundup of news coverage of the Beijing migrant school closure situation has been placed on CMC website. bit.ly/qXZVo1

Good HBR article on collaboration bit.ly/oeDpqU

CMC is Hiring | Beijing-based Communications and Fundraising Manager (Chinese) w/ sig experience in communications bit.ly/htAA6U

The poor die young. 29,000 Somali children under age of 5 have died already in the famine http://huff.to/pNd6u4

A fantastic photo essay on a few of the world's slums. http://bit.ly/ru2eO0