UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a dire warning that the world is moving in the wrong direction and faces “a pivotal moment” where continuing business as usual could lead to a breakdown of global order and a future of perpetual...
Mankind’s future ability to feed itself is in jeopardy due to intensifying pressures on natural resources, mounting inequality, and the fallout from a changing climate, warns a new United Nations’ report. Though very real and significant progress in reducing global...
washingtonpost.com, by Alexandra Filindra, Amber Wichowsky And Meghan Condon, Aug. 22, 2016 Twenty years ago today, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reauthorization Act, promising famously to “end welfare as we...
afghanistantimes.af, By M. Nadeem Alizai, June 13, 2016 — For years the Afghan policymakers have blamed insecurity for hampered development activities in the country. The picture they project is incomplete and full of flaws. As per statistics of Ministry of...
cgdev.org, Center for Global Development, 8/5/16, Andy Sumner In a new CGD paper we find that: The poor, on average, live at about the same level: they are not necessarily better off in developing countries with higher average incomes Most developing countries could...
