This originally appeared in the Brookings Institute blog. Where’s the impact? A results-oriented aid agenda for Africa has picked up…
Jeff Sachs (New York) – Expanding access to technology works hand in glove with the end of extreme poverty, the…
Raj Shah United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Raj Shah announced that the US Foreign Assistance Dashboard was…
Amartya SenStefano Corso Amartya Sen is one of the most important development thinkers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for…
What’s at stake: Between 4 million and 10 million more hungry people overseas could be fed — for the same amount of money — if proposed changes are enacted, according to experts at a leading anti-poverty think tank, Center for Global Development.
The death toll from the garment factory collapse in Dhaka tips 1,000 and the rescue effort is coming to an end. Two weeks since the tragic incident laborers in Bangladesh are making small gains. The government says it is prepared to increase the minimum wage and allow workers to form trade unions without factory owner permission.
Farmer plants rice in the Philippines. Credit: International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Want to change the world? Many tell you…
Haitian boy with choleraUnicef The UN continues to refuse to take responsibility for the cholera outbreak in Haiti. It will…