Development
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 5, 2013
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RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — The line used to be clearer between rich and poorer nations when discussions turned to a country’s ideal population size. In the industrial global north and the tiger economies of East Asia, family sizes…
- Categories: Development, Health and Population, Women
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- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • January 21, 2013
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With the start of a new year, the eradication of hunger remains one of the world’s biggest challenges. Despite decades of aid work and development, overall world hunger remains at a serious level, and 20 countries have alarming or…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Climate Change, Development, Humanitarian Aid, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 4, 2012
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While the recent global financial crisis has affected numerous targets meant to measure progress on the Millennium Development Goals, the blow might logically be expected to fall heaviest on No. 8, which calls for global partnerships in aid, trade,…
- Categories: Development
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 23, 2012
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RANGOON — One of the most surprising statistics about the Burmese people is not that they are the poorest in Southeast Asia. It is well known that decades of military dictatorship destroyed the national economy and set human development…
- Categories: Asia, Development, Education
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 22, 2012
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It may have been a coincidence or maybe not. When the 67th United Nations General Assembly session opens in New York in mid-September, the president of Burma, Thein Sein, is expected to speak in what is still called, quaintly,…
- Categories: Asia, Development, Human Rights
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 8, 2012
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Jim Yong Kim, an American doctor who was born in Korea, began his new job as World Bank president in July. In this World Bank video, he answers a sundry of the 1,000 questions his office has received worldwide…
- Categories: Development
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 17, 2012
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The clamor for United Nations reform has not stopped since its first days in 1945. Although ideas for changing the UN rise and fall each year, the newest calls for an overhaul involve development, one of the largest sectors…
- Categories: Development, Special Report
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 4, 2012
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On his first day in office on July 2, the new World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim, placed himself firmly in the footsteps of his predecessor. He announced that he was backing two recent decisions in the bank to…
- Categories: Development
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 22, 2012
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In a broadside against the United Nations Development Program, Jagdish Bhagwati, professor of economics at Columbia University and an adviser to the government of India and numerous international bodies, argues that the UN’s premier agency has declined in staff…
- Categories: Development
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 4, 2012
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After six years as director of the United Nations Information Center in Washington, D.C., Will Davis is now leading the UN Development Program’s office in the capital, promoting the agency’s interests among constituents at Congress, the White House, nonprofit…
- Categories: Development, GOINGS-ON
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 2, 2012
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The first of the eight Millennium Development Goals makes an ambitious demand: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger worldwide. It is now widely accepted that progress has been made in many countries on cutting the percentage of people living with…
- Categories: Development, Human Rights
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 16, 2012
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In early March, a report from Unicef and the World Health Organization proclaimed proudly that the world had not only met but also surpassed the Millennium Development Goals target of reducing by half the number of people without access…
- Categories: Development, Health and Population
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 4, 2012
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In India, a title to land can literally be a passport to security. Everything from bank credit to legal proof of caste, income, residence, eligibility for government housing, admission to schools and colleges – and even bail for a…
- Categories: Asia, Development, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • February 28, 2012
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As the world pins hopes on more effective farming to end cycles of hunger in many developing countries, an important factor holding back food production is a persistent cultural opposition to giving women more power over the land. Nearly…
- Categories: Development, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 25, 2012
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United Nations international atomic inspectors confirmed that Iran is moving apace on producing nuclear fuel at an underground site, but that is not what Kwaku Aning, an official from the International Atomic Energy Agency, wanted to talk about on…
- Categories: Climate Change, Development
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