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.
The letter to the G.A.O., the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress, now over a year old, was sent by U.S. Senators Leahy, Bayh and Lugar following the disappearance of the Bayh Amendment.
Under Israel's blockade, only 18 food items are approved for import into Gaza, where 65 percent of people live below the poverty line. Other prohibited goods include soccer balls, ink, and paper.
When it comes to HIV/AIDS and gender, big donors talk the talk but sometimes stumble when it comes time to walk the walk in the prevention, treatment and care programs that they fund.
When approaching Iran, the Republican Party line and the Hugo Chavez line are running in opposite directions -- but parallel.
This is a disaster-laden forecast, which essentially describes a developed global economy mired in staggering contraction.
Over the past five months, President Obama has made great strides in improving transparency within the USG. Mr. Zoellick and his team of experts over at the World Bank could stand to learn a thing or two from the U.S. Government.
According to a Greenpeace report, Brazil's cattle sector "is the largest driver of deforestation in the world, responsible for one in every eight hectares destroyed globally."
Leading lights of the aid movement -- Geldof, Bono, Sachs and Easterly -- continue to bicker with politicians and amongst themselves without taking a visible role in reform of the levers of assistance.
Microcredit is not a silver bullet for poverty alleviation. But Kiva has done an exceptional job in advancing the popular understanding of the role that credit can play in raising people out of poverty.
Education, especially for girls and women, is the most highly leveraged investment now available for developing countries.
It is a time to find common ground with our neighbors around the world and develop global solutions to a global crisis.
Various civil society groups reiterated the need for disclosure of deliberative World Bank documents, especially those relating to the Development Policy Loans.
An improved disclosure policy requires a shift in thinking and a new business approach from the World Bank.
International leaders gathered in Washington, DC this past week to pledge assistance to Haiti through the Haiti.Now, the rhetoric of partnership with Haiti needs to be actualized.
Countries supporting Pakistan are set to pledge a total of about 4 billion dollars (about 400 billion yen) in aid to the country over the next two yea...
What is incomprehensible is that Summers may be an economic genius, but he seems to have the sensitivity of a 300 lb. gorilla.
The contemporary idea of the "global economy" is based on a misapplied analogy to the historical development of national economies.
By: Irene Khan - Secretary General, Amnesty International Dr Gerd Leipold - Executive Director, Greenpeace International Jeremy Hobbs - Executive Dir...
In addition to killing the aid program, Dambisa Moyo prescribes free-market policies such as delving into the capital markets and creative financing such as micro-finance.
The run-up to the G-20 meeting has been interesting and colorful. President Lula Da Silva of Brazil declared that "this crisis was caused by the irrat...
We have seen what happens when Capitalism runs amok and is not inclusive. The problem is not capitalism, it is greed and the lack of the human element.
The European Union, IMF and World Bank today bailed out Romania with a €20bn (£18.5bn) loan in return for severe cuts in public spending and wages....
The US Senate should pass the Bayh amendment again and ensure that it is not taken out yet again from the Appropriations bill of 2010 under discussion now.
The global economy is set to shrink by one to two percent this year, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Saturday, saying the depth of the sl...
