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- Frank Vogl
- • May 28, 2020

Fears abound as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the poorer nations of the world, not only about appalling levels of death and economic depression but also about criminal opportunism. Never before have agencies in the United Nations system, the…
- Categories: Covid-19
- Bill Buchanan
- • January 1, 2018

Since 1971, the United Nations has recognized least-developed countries as those deemed highly disadvantaged in their development strides because of structural, historical and geographical reasons. The aim has been, and still is, to support these countries to graduate to…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, Poverty, WORLDVIEWS
- Thomas G. Weiss
- • February 12, 2013

BRUSSELS — George Gershwin certainly would not have been inspired to write a symphonic tone poem about an American academic on sabbatical attempting to interpret European reactions to the United Nations. Ten years ago, Robert Kagan wrote that “Americans…
- Categories: Development, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS