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World Development Report 2012: Gender, Equality, and Men’s Education?
A look at how men’s education is portrayed in the World Development Report 2012 on Gender and Equality and where the report fails. The World Development Report (WDR) 2012 has recently been released,...
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Man-to-Man with lawyer-turned author Clifford Garstang
Cameron Conaway sits down with Clifford Garstang to discuss life, law, inspiration, and now, writing. Clifford Garstang served as a Peace Corps volunteer in South Korea, and after earning an MA in...
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Off-Grid Power Solutions in Africa to Present a $3.1 Billion Market for...
Embed from Getty Images The fastest growth in the off-grid energy market is likely to be in Africa. ____ According to a report entitled ‘Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2016’ published last month...
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Creating an Emissions Trading System in Ten Steps
Embed from Getty Images In order to move to a low carbon future and limit global average temperatures to 2°C, a number of steps are required. — Decarbonising electricity production, switching to...
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Off-Grid Power Solutions in Africa Set to Present a $3.1 Billion Market for...
Embed from Getty Images The Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2016 predicts a brighter future of Africa. ___ According to a report entitled ‘Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2016’ published last...
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Pessimism is rife, optimism naive. Activism is the best tool for now.
Within every news story, talking point and research paper that floods our present awareness, the same question emerges over and over. We hear it in the World Bank’s poverty estimates, in the...
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Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. A. Women and Poverty – Paragraph...
— Strategic objective A.1. Review, adopt and maintain macroeconomic policies and development strategies that address the needs and efforts of women in poverty Actions to be taken 59. By multilateral...
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Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. B. Education and Training of Women –...
— Strategic objective B.5. Allocate sufficient resources for and monitor the implementation of educational reforms Actions to be taken 86. By multilateral development institutions, including the World...
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World Bank Head: Climate Change Hurts the Economy
— By Alex Kirby LONDON – The president of the World Bank says global warming is a real risk to the planet and is already affecting the world’s economy. Speaking to the G20 finance ministers at their...
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The Virus That Shut Down the World: The Yawning Gulf Between Rich and Poor
By UN News Centre Inequality between the rich and poor worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic and poverty increased, for the first time in decades. In part two of our series on how the virus has...
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Disability Discrimination at the World Bank: Is It Immunity or Impunity?
By Thalif Deen * The 15,900-strong World Bank, which has funded over 12,000 development projects worldwide since 1947, is an international institution with a superlative reputation for its sustained...
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The Tale of Independence
By Carolina Vásquez Araya Independence festivals celebrate the greatest myth in history. The dates represent only a symbolic reference in the course of history, which is why the Independence...
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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back in the Struggle Against Anti-Democratic...
By Manuel Pérez-Rocha In 1959, Pakistan and Germany signed the world’s first bilateral investment treaty (BIT), giving private corporations unprecedented power to sue these countries’ governments...
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Boost Incentives To Grow Agro-Industrial Parks – Report
By: Ranjit Devraj This article is supported by the CASA programme. Agro-industrial parks could offer a solution to severe global food supply chain challenges, such as the disruptions caused by...
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The War on Ukraine, Food Insecurity and Capitalism
By William Briggs The war in Ukraine has made an already critical food crisis worse. Fingers point to grain supply shortages as an almost causal factor in global food insecurity, but the problem is...
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Indebtedness Suffocates Developing Countries
By Prensa Latina A few hours before the end of 2023, the World Bank (WB) showed the scandalous figures paid by developing countries in debt service payments, an issue that has undoubtedly affected the...
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‘No Cash Accepted’ Signs Are Bad News for Millions of Unbanked Americans
By Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University How many people don’t have a bank account? And just how difficult has it become to live without one? These questions are becoming increasingly important as more...
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