Development
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 16, 2014
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In a direct challenge to Western control of two major international financial organizations, the five countries known as the BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — announced on July 15 the formation of a new development bank …
- Categories: Development
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 26, 2014
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An unusual survey of 3,400 people worldwide who know the United Nations has found strong support for some basic rethinking over the next decade on the organization’s work in development. Among the recommendations, over two-thirds of respondents suggested adding more …
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 19, 2014
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The surprising move in 2010 by a repressive Burmese military regime to begin ceding power to the nation’s people was just the beginning of a tangled story. The new democracy held its first credible election less than two years later …
- Categories: Asia, Development, Myanmar
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 7, 2014
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Two leading international policy experts at Columbia University are calling for more action from individual governments to address inequalities within their borders, in effect adding a bold new goal to the eight measurements of progress reflected in the Millennium Development …
- Categories: Development, Poverty, Responsibility to Protect
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- Shiwani Neupane
- • March 18, 2014
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The dialogue on living wages has come a long way since the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,000 people in 2013, but there will be no solution to the living wage problem until all parties involved …
- Categories: Development, Women
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- Denis Fitzgerald
- • March 13, 2014
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The future global development agenda must include a standalone goal for gender equality, and United Nations member states, who will have the final say on the successor to the Millennium Development Goals, should not use culture or ideology as an …
- Categories: Development, Women
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- Robert Piocciotto
- • March 5, 2014
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Recent events have confirmed that the United Nations has a deep reservoir of good will worldwide. But its reputation is undermined by the ineffectiveness of its development assistance. UN agencies could improve their performance by implementing effective evaluations. However, the …
- Categories: Development, Humanitarian Aid
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- A. Edward Elmendorf
- • January 19, 2014
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Jan Eliasson has been the deputy secretary-general of the United Nations since July 2012, the second in command after Ban Ki-moon. Eliasson, 73, is a former Swedish foreign minister and was ambassador to the United States twice, among other foreign …
- Categories: Development, Peace and Security
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 23, 2013
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While Americans quarrel over the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — much of the rest of the world has established or is moving toward universal health care for all citizens, and the World Bank is taking a lead in setting …
- Categories: Development, Health and Population
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- Leelananda De Silva
- • November 14, 2013
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The United Nations development system is part of the new global order emerging in the 21st century. But interdependence has brought changes. Earlier international relations addressed issues in intergovernmental relations. National political, economic, social and environmental issues were largely left …
- Categories: Development
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 27, 2013
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Fazle Hasan Abed runs the world’s largest nongovernmental development organization. He has garnered numerous international prizes, honorary degrees, very important friends and a British knighthood. Yet in the United States, Abed’s successes, won through a creative self-help program centered on …
- Categories: Asia, Development, Women
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- Graciana del Castillo
- • October 24, 2013
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Despite the peculiarities of each particular case, when civil wars or other chaos end, countries need to address the root causes of the conflict to make the fragile peace sustainable. In this context, countries need to establish public security; to …
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- Alice Speri
- • September 25, 2013
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With 827 days to go until the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals — the United Nations’ flagship agenda for global development — the buzzword at the General Assembly’s annual opening debate in New York this week was “acceleration.” A …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, General Assembly, Health and Population
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- Jose Antonio Ocampo
- • September 22, 2013
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One of the success stories of the United Nations has been its capacity to serve as a forum to agree on global development goals. They include not only those set in the UN Development Decades, but also in the series …
- Categories: Development, SDGs
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- Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss
- • September 2, 2013
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“If we want things to change, some things will have to stay as they are.” This inversion of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa‘s aphorism summarizes a key finding of a recent global survey on the future development goals. A select group …
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