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We live in a deeply volatile world. How we help others has to change
Ahead of the Global Partnerships Conference, hosted in the UK, the development minister, Baroness Jenny Chapman, writes that global humanitarian needs are beyond the resources we have to respond and that a new model of cooperation is needed
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