The famine in the Horn of Africa reinforced the image of a continent struggling to feed itself. Behind these images of seeming despair,…
Libyans have a new lease on life, a feeling that, at long last, they are the masters of their own fate. Perhaps Iraqis, after a decade of…
The role of science, technology, and engineering in solving Africa's most challenging economic problems—from telecommunications to…
Indonesia's financial sector has two paradoxes: (i) Indonesia has been a global leader in microfinance for the past 25 years, but access to…
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The total amount of development finance generated by Vietnam has been exceptionally high from all significant sources using all standard…
Today, three of ten people on the planet rely on others to grow their food and 900 million remain chronically food insecure. By 2050 the…
Greece and Italy, desperate after their gridlocked political systems left them mired in debt and crisis, have chosen technocratic…
The parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change will meet once again in Durban, South Africa, from 28 November to 9 December.…
To survive the droughts, wars and other major causes of famine, Africa must embrace technologies that enable it to produce more, better…
Poverty, although it has declined dramatically in the last few decades, affects more than a billion
people in the contemporary world. Their…