What's an Underemployed Gal to Do? Run For Office.
The experience of running convinced me that women have a tremendous natural ability for politics. We just have to get over our fear of it and go for the brass ring.
The experience of running convinced me that women have a tremendous natural ability for politics. We just have to get over our fear of it and go for the brass ring.
Elyssa Pachico | Posted 12.15.2009 | Green
Nobody at the Copenhagen summit is painting a very rosy picture right now when it comes to climate change.
AP | Posted 12.03.2009 | World
NEW DELHI — The World Bank has agreed to loan India $1 billion to help clean the Ganges river, sacred to hundred of millions of Hindus and also ...
Sabria Jawhar | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
About 10 years ago Saudi women started returning home from abroad with fresh law degrees and were ready to take on the world. And they are still waiting.
Dan Silverstein | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 80% of agricultural workers are women. According to the World Bank,They raise 90% of the food, but receive only 10% of credit extended for agricultural loans.
Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
Even though research concludes that industrial agriculture is one of the major contributors to global warming, neither international nor U.S. domestic policies are adequately addressing this sector.
President Abdoulaye Wade | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
Battling global warming, the economic crisis, food and energy shortages, and AIDS and malaria requires co-partners, not post-colonial relationships.
Chad Dobson | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business
One German participant summarized: "The IFC places all of the burden of environmental and social safeguards on the client ... The whole world is re-regulating and you should too."
Jan McGirk | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green
Farming tigers in order to save them may turn out to be the equivalent of herding cats: an impossible undertaking with too many variables for sustained success.
Max Keiser | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
Latvia should not pay back its loans to Sweden says renowned economist Dr. Michael Hudson. I interviewed him after reading his piece; The Specter o...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 10.08.2009 | Home
The real issue for regulators around the globe is a serious definition of the financial world we want to live in. The current focus nearly exclusively on the banking sector could cause authorities to miss the broader picture.
Georges Ugeux | Posted 12.01.2009 | World
This year, President Obama drove a very different agenda -- one focused on discussing how the world can form global governance and cooperate to stimulate the ailing economies.
Dan Silverstein | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business
Two award-winning reporters have collaborated on a new book entitledEnough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. It is a page turner. Unless you simply don't give a damn, this is a must read.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.29.2009 | World
The expansion from the G-8 to the G-20 is mostly a symbolic move. Since the rich countries control the institutions with actual power, the G-20 is still mainly the G-7 with the other 13 countries sitting in.
Dan Glickman | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
Norm Borlaug's life is both a symbol of what can be done, and a reminder of the enormous problem of global poverty we still face. Why not finish his work?
Johann Hari | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine is one of the most important political books of the past decade. But Michael Winterbottom's "adaptation" for film is garbled and mumbled to the point of meaninglessness.
Julia Moulden | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
"Your eyes, it's a day's work to look into them." American composer and performance artist Laurie Anderson wrote the line that came to me when I first...
Julia Moulden | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
What's up? It's the second annual SOCAP conference, the world's premiere social capital markets event (social capital investments incorporate three kinds of returns: financial, social, and environmental).
Vijaya Ramachandran | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business
If IFC stays on its current path, its portfolio will become larger than the World Bank in about five years. This is a staggering result for IFC, whose portfolio was in the $2 to $4 billion range less than a decade ago.
Chad Dobson | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business
The World Bank's current struggle within its Forest Carbon Partnership Facility illustrates the difficulty of building a solid programmatic foundation that incorporates civil society concerns.
James Denselow | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green
A forgotten story is how the destruction and painfully slow reconstruction of the Iraq state is occurring against the backdrop of a deteriorating natural environment.
Mindy S. Lubber | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green
While the industrialized world is struggling to cut its emissions, it is simultaneously bankrolling the construction of thousands of megawatts of new coal-fired power in developing countries.
Desmond Bermingham | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
Despite repeated pledges to help, donors and international funding agencies are not doing enough to help. National economies recover but kids will have lost the opportunity of a lifetime.
Dennis Whittle | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green
The job of the World Bank and other aid agencies is to promote innovation, and to do so in a way that helps rather than harms the environment.
World Vision | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
While non-G8 donors are responsible for a quarter of the total African aid increase since 2005, and are delivering on their side of the deal, aid from the G8 countries has actually fallen.
Diane Tucker | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics