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Thinking of a Haitian Man Named Junior

Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Marcia DeSanctis

Junior was one of the most handsome twenty year olds I had ever seen. He was removed from his home and family in Haiti, but he told me of his dream to play professional soccer.

World Bank Loans India $1 Billion To Clean Ganges River Pollution

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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 ...

Civil Society Sounds Off on IFC Policies in Istanbul

Chad Dobson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Chad Dobson

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."

Africa's Seat at the Table

President Abdoulaye Wade | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
President Abdoulaye Wade

Battling global warming, the economic crisis, food and energy shortages, and AIDS and malaria requires co-partners, not post-colonial relationships.

Time to Stop the Regulatory Circus and to Steer the Ship to Safe Ground

Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Georges Ugeux

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.

Earthquake To Cost Haiti's Economy At Least 15% Of GDP

Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

The earthquake in Haiti will cost the nation's economy at least 15 percent of its gross domestic product, said Pamela Cox, the World Bank's vice presi...

Judicial Reform Puts Saudi Women Lawyers in a Position of All Show and No Play

Sabria Jawhar | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Sabria Jawhar

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.

Herding Big Cats Won't Save the Wild Tiger

Jan McGirk | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Jan McGirk

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.

For Disappearing Glaciers, How About a Whitewashed Solution?

Elyssa Pachico | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Elyssa Pachico

Nobody at the Copenhagen summit is painting a very rosy picture right now when it comes to climate change.

Sustainable Agriculture: The Unrecognized Key to Reversing Climate Change

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Andrew Kimbrell

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.

Only a New Global System Can Handle a World of Explosive Risk

Ian Goldin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Ian Goldin

One lesson from the financial crisis is inescapable -- that the world's governing bodies, from the UN to the World Bank, from the G20 to the IMF, can no longer cope with systemic risks of these kinds.

Women Farmers in the Developing World

Dan Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Dan Silverstein

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.

Interview with Michael Hudson Who Advises Latvia To Default on Their Loans to Sweden

Max Keiser | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Max Keiser

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...

A Surprisingly Successful G-20 Summit

Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Georges Ugeux

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.

G-20 Doesn't Offer Much Reform

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Mark Weisbrot

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.

Saving A Billion People from Starvation

Dan Glickman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Dan Glickman

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?

This Film is an Idiot's Version of Naomi Klein's Masterpiece

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Johann Hari

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.

When You Educate A Girl, Everything Changes

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Julia Moulden

"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...

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Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

It is time to look ahead instead of look behind. It is time to leave the fears of the baby boomers behind and embrace the developing world once and for all.

Show Me the Money! Using Your Capital To Save The World At This Year's SOCAP Conference

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Julia Moulden

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).

On Current Path, IFC Is Set to Become Bigger Than the World Bank in Five Years

Vijaya Ramachandran | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Vijaya Ramachandran

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.

Put the Brakes on the Bank: Carbon Finance in Indonesia

Chad Dobson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Chad Dobson

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.

Climate Change and Iraq

James Denselow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
James Denselow

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.

Climate Follies: Bankrolling Dirty Power in Developing Countries

Mindy S. Lubber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Mindy S. Lubber

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.

G8 in Italy Should Launch Global Fund for Education

Desmond Bermingham | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Desmond Bermingham

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.