I’ve mentioned this before, the move by some poor or middle-income countries to move toward using eyeball identification schemes rather…
The Center for Global Development calls it the Commitment Index, and the 2012 edition is now available. It is a…
A lot of people who say they want to help poor people — the aid and development community — have…
How many Americans know and/or care about the “Greatest Promise Ever Made” — the Millennium Development Goals? I haven’t seen…
What in the world does Labor Day have to do with global poverty and inequity? At Humanosphere, we focus on…
The Center for Global Development has created a great interactive map illustrating the relative impact of climate change on nations.…
World Health OrganizationWHO At the close of the week-long meeting of the World Health Assembly, the governing body of the…
The anti-poverty scheme known as microfinance is in crisis, or maybe several crises. The political sacking of Muhammad Yunus as…
Quick question: Can we end poverty or not? One of the many annoying things journalists do is force people to…
There is a crisis in the anti-poverty scheme microfinance, centered in India but reverberating globally. I posted on the local…