Development projects contribute to poverty fight. But there is a more important factor, according to Xavier Mir Bernado, international cooperation expert at Baobab International Development Consultancy. Eliminating poverty and injustice, he says, will require a change of people's mentality on these issues.
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Sam Mednick
Sam Mednick is a Devex Contributing Reporter based in Burkina Faso. Over the past 15 years she has reported on conflict, post-conflict, and development stories from the Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America, and Europe. She recently spent almost three years reporting on the conflict in South Sudan as the Associated Press correspondent. Her work has also appeared in The New Humanitarian, VICE, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and Al Jazeera, among others.
