Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

The Global NARS Consortium’s revolutionary approach to food security

To date, agricultural research has been mostly geared to issues relevant to high-income nations. Developing countries’ national agricultural research systems (NARS) deserve much more influence – and a new consortium is being established to serve that purpose. ...

Distorted perception

Middle-income majority

Hans Rosling showed that humankind is in a better shape than generally believed

MDGs

Think globally, act globally

Millennium Development Goals shaped new global partnership

Research

How green industrial policy can boost prosperity

Why environmental protection can lead to more employment in developing countries

Recycling

Turning trash into cash

In Zimbabwe, poor women collect garbage and sell recycled products

Development strategies

New paradigm needed

The root causes of African indebtedness are still the same

Failed policies

Descent into hell

In Africa, structural adjustment did not trigger fast growth, but had a contractive impact

Development strategy

Multiple adjustment needs

The World Bank's mission is about more than crisis management

No hope for Rohingya

Monsoon rains threaten refugees in Bangladeshi camps

Summer Special

Robbed identity

Uday Prakash is an Indian fiction writer who is interested in how poor people are marginalised and exploited

Fighting poverty

Successful debt relief

Lessons learned concerning multilateral debt relief