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Syria: "Relief alone doesn't answer the problem"

Leaders from Europe, the US and the Middle East have arrived in London ahead of a donors conference aimed at tackling the humanitarian crisis in Syria. Helen Clark, Head of the United Nations Development Programme, tells Newsday that long-term development assistance is needed to support education and economies, in order to avoid an "underclass" of people emerging in the region.

(Photo: Syrian children attend a class at a school in the northern Lebanese province of Akkar. Credit: Getty)

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