Development

Taking on Your 20's -- What You Need to Know Now

Alexis Sclamberg | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Women, Self Help, Mindfulness, Personal Growth, Self-Awareness, Personal Development, Twenty-Something Advice, Self-Improvement, Twenty Something, Development, Emotional Intelligence, Wellness, Self-Help, Women News

In these final years of our restless 20's, we're wrestling with some big ticket items -- getting married, finding better jobs, moving, settling down, having kids.

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Interview: Jeff Power of Pangeo Coffee

Menuism | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Starbucks Coffee, Development, Developing Countries, Coffee, International Development, Food News

Coffee has followed a similar story to wine. In recent years, people have realized there's truly a difference between cheap beans and good ones, and even amazing ones.

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Hunger Games Approved For Release In China: Should Architects Be Scared?

Mitch McEwen | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Politics, HUnger Games, Architecture, The Hunger Games China, Development, Urbanism, New York City, The Hunger Games, China, Home News

Now that The Hunger Games phenomenon is set to be released next month in China, it may be a moment to ask -- where, as architects, do we see ourselves in this allegory?

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Doing Development Differently

Andrea Coleman | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Development, Social Entrepreneurship, Impact News

Making a difference matters. If development, poverty and inequality are going to be solved, then entrepreneurial characteristics need to be developed.

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Everything I Really Needed to Know About Nonprofit Work, I Learned When I Was 21

Hayden Bixby | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Leadership, Leadership Snohomish County, Governance, Africa, Dan Eldon, Jennifer New, Development, Nonprofit Advice, Nonprofit Work, Impact News

The rules we implemented while out on safari still apply as I and others face the inevitable interpersonal, political, mechanical, and financial challenges that arise in nonprofit work.

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Banking With Ideas

Mahmoud Mohieldin | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Development, International Development, World Bank, Business News

Today's world has no shortage of development challenges. The good news is that there is also no shortage of ideas for solving them.

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The Devil in the Malaria Details

David de Ferranti | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Bednets, Markets, Poverty, Economics, Malaria, Globalization, Business, World Malaria Day, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, World Health Organization, Prevention, Disease, Global Health, Procurement, Development, Fighting Malaria, Impact News

Have you ever had to buy a long-lasting insecticide-treated bed net (LLIN)? Probably not, even if you live in Africa, where nine out of ten malaria-related deaths occur.

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From Kashgar to Kashi (喀什): The Chinese Remaking of Kashgar

Amy Reger | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: East Turkestan, Kashgar, Demolitions, Development, Uyghurs, Xinjiang, Uyghur, Han Chinese, Uyghurs in Kashgar, Chinese Protest, Kashgar Employment, World News

If the Chinese government is serious about bringing prosperity to all ethnicities in East Turkestan with its new development plans, it needs to work aggressively to end open discrimination in the employment sector for Uyghurs.

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Healing The Grandchildren Of Rwandan Genocide

Suzanne Skees | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Rape, Children, Handcrafts, Grassroots, Artisans, Catapult Design, Clinton Foundation, Ptsd, Catholicism, Kigali, HIV/AIDS, Women's Collective, The Ihangane Project, Nutrition, Genocide, Maternal Care, University of Michigan, Paul Kagame, Gardening, Development, Hotel Rwanda, Solar Power, Healthcare, Community-Based Organizations, Rwanda, Economic Development, Education, Health Ministry, Video, Impact News

Julienne was just four during the 1994 genocide. She is HIV-positive and works as an artisan for this member-owned women's collective through The Ih...

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BRICs Are Building a Wall Around the Poor Despite Rapid Growth

James Doran | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Russia, Brics, India, Goldman Sachs, New Delhi, Brazil, Development, China Economy, China, Developing Countries, Income Inequality, Global Poverty, Business News

Whatever economic miracle is sweeping big Chinese cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, it has given Loong Poon Lei, and hundreds of other villages, a wide berth.

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Wanted: Professional Soulmate

Dr Layla McCay | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Women, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Tedx, Africa, Public Health, Partnerships, Innovation, Ben and Jerry's, Development, Entrepreneur, Tedxchange, 'No Controversy' Campaign, Business News

It turns out that while I was spending my formative years coming up with brilliant ideas to change the world, I should actually have been screening my fellow students for their potential as my future business partners.

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How Can Africa Compete With China?

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Corruption, Nollywood, Intellectual Property, Africa, Trade, International Development, Free Trade, Food, Manufacturing, China, Development, Africa-China-Relations, Africa Trade, World News

Africans have lots of opportunities to trade that they have not yet exploited -- opportunities that are outside of China's reach. The first of this "low-hanging fruits" is food.

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Grab the Land

Josh Tetrick | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Foreign Aid, Poverty, Disease, Water, Africa, Genocide, Land, Impact, Development, Inequity, Inequality, Culture, Impact News

For millions of indigenous villagers and pastoralists it means forced relocation, loss of livelihoods, and a death blow to their ancient cultures. Ethiopia is a sad example of the worst of these outcomes.

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Sustainability Is the Sensible Alternative

Kiyotaka Akasaka | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Sustainable Food, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Sustainability, Climate Change Denial, Agenda 21, Rio+20, Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Development, Earth Summit, Rio Earth Summit, World Water Day, Global Poverty, Video, World News

More people in the world are living better, but the natural world that underpins this prosperity is constantly being eroded.

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In Order To Celebrate World Tuberculosis Day, We Have To End TB

Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: World Tuberculosis Day, Poverty, World TB Day, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, The Global Fund, Global Fund, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, Development, Healthy Living Health News, Personal Health, Impact News

Is apathy and the financial crisis what stand between us and the saving the lives of people who lack access to basic prevention and treatment?

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Yay! Summers Not Nominated

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Jim Yong Kim World Bank, Video, Jim Yong Kim, Poverty, World Bank, Jim Yong Kim Video, Jim Yong Kim Dartmouth, Kim World Bank, Development, Business News

That collective sigh you hear is mass relief that Larry Summers will not be the next World Bank president. In fact, the actual U.S. nominee, Dartmo...

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Myanmar: First Steps

Stephen P. Groff | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Developing Countries, Global Poverty, Myanmar, Burma, Free Trade, Asia, Development, Economic Development, Nternational Development, World News

The road ahead still looks daunting, but the opportunity for Myanmar's people is simply too great to turn back.

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Jeff Sachs Is the Best Choice for President of the World Bank

Laurence J. Kotlikoff | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Jeff Sachs, Developing Countries, Development, President of World Bank, President Barack Obama, World Bank, World News

President Obama should appoint Jeff Sachs President of the World Bank. Jeff is, without doubt, the world's top development economist.

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Who Will Be Africa's Brazil?

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: South Africa, Poverty, Ethiopia, International Development, Brazil, Agriculture, Africa, Nigeria, Development, Congo, Angola, Africa Economy, World News

The Brazilian "model" is one of balance -- between economic discipline and social solidarity, efficiency and equity, markets and people. That's worth imitating in Africa.

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Saw Kony 2012? A Must Read New Book on Conflict and Aid

Tom Murphy | Posted 05.20.2012

The timing of the Kony 2012 campaign is quite apt in light of the recent release of Dr Samantha Nutt's memoir-cum-aid commentary Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies & Aid.

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Design Briefs Advance Performance

Soren Petersen | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Creativity, Design, Performance, Industrial Design, Strategy, Development, Product Design, Business News

Maintaining an open perspective while staying focused on a goal can cause any aspiring design star to run in circles, wasting much of their valuable time and energy. Can a couple of hours spent composing an Inspirational Design Brief significantly improve their performance?

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Choosing the Next President of the World Bank

Patrick Sharma | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Jeffrey Sachs, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Development, Indra Nooyi, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Bank President, Business News

Robert Zoellick's recent announcement that he will step down as president of the World Bank in June has cast new light on an old problem: who should lead the Bank and how should he or she be chosen?

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In All-India General Strike, Workers Go All Out Against Neoliberalism

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Labor, Strike, Workers, Human Rights, Neoliberalism, Globalization, India, Asia, Development, Union, India Strike, India General Strike, World News

India's economic ascent seems like it should be the envy of the world's richest nations. Except Indian workers just gave the boosters of global capitalism a few million second thoughts.

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Make Development Part of the Equation

Muhammad H. Zaman | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Education, Higher Education, Global Poverty, Poverty, Development, International Development, Engineering, Impact News

With increasing globalization and loss of manufacturing in the U.S., it's high time we think about what our engineers of today and tomorrow should look like.

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Why the World Bank Needs Jeff Sachs at the Helm

Michael Shank | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Robert Zoellick, United Nations, World Bank, Larry Summers, Asia, Climate Change, Michael Shank, Ban Ki-Moon, George Mason University, Kathmandu, Timothy Geithner, Earth Institute, Portugal, Greece, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, National Peace Academy, Italy, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, Jeffrey Sachs, Institute for Economics and Peace, Africa, Latin America, Income Inequality, European Union, Jeff Sachs, The End of Poverty, Columbia University, Millennium Development Goals, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Hillary Clinton, Development, Poverty, Spain, Kenya, Jeffrey Sachs World Bank, World News

Given the World Bank's focus on poverty, economics and climate, and given Sachs' wealth of experience in all three, there is no better candidate.

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