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| We Need a Better Measure of GDP in Poor Countries |
| Bill Gates | 05/16/13 |
| If GDP is an inaccurate indicator of growth in poor countries, how can we make good decisions about allocating development aid? | |
| Breaking the Binary |
| 04/26/13 | |
| This Schwab Foundation guide for scaling social innovation examines case studies of policy experimentation from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. | |
| The Optimist's Timeline |
| Bill Gates | 01/17/13 |
| Digital empowerment is a long and ongoing process, says Bill Gates, but he remains optimistic that technological innovation will improve the lives of the poorest people. | |
| Send Salads to Ethiopia, and Solar Panels to Senegal |
| Todd Moss | 12/06/12 |
| We wouldn't send salads as food relief to a starving country, so why is the Overseas Private Investment Corporation doing the equivalent in the energy sector? | |
| Using ICT to Enable Agricultural Innovation Systems |
| 10/23/12 | |
| The potential of ICTs to help small farmers exchange information is clear. World Bank and FAO hosted a discussion on current projects that are expected to bring beneficial results. | |
| Resources: From Curse to Blessing |
| Joseph Stiglitz | 08/09/12 |
| With the right policies in place, and unhurried fair negotiation of contracts, natural resources can be blessing for developing countries. | |
| Millions of Poor Women Are Still Waiting to Reap the Benefits of Cairo |
| 09/19/11 | |
| The 1994 Cairo conference put reproductive choice in the hands of women, but women living in poverty need more than empty pledges so that they too can take part in saving the Earth. | |
| LeapFrog Investments |
| Legislating Transparency in the Extractive Sector |
| Kathryn M. Martorana | 07/12/11 |
| The SEC has an opportunity to demonstrate that the United States takes transparency and accountability seriously and intends to act as a global leader in fostering secure, equitable, long-term resource partnerships with developing nations. | |
| Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research |
| Assessing Progress in Africa toward the MDGs |
| 09/23/10 | |
| There are indicators of hope in Africa with a 50 percent decrease in malaria in 15 countries and nine countries reaching 90 percent access to safe drinking water, yet this report also stresses Africa's struggle to meet health targets. | |
| Convicts for Export |
| Brahma Cellaney | 07/27/10 |
| China has devised a novel strategy to relieve pressure on its overcrowded prisons: employ convicts as laborers on overseas projects in the developing world. | |
| Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four |
| Lucille Pilling |
| Dr. Lucille B. Pilling is a corporate social responsibility strategist with expertise in corporate sustainability and global public health. |
| Fair Trade Trick-or-Treat |
| 10/30/08 | |
| Children usually don costumes on Halloween to collect candy, but this year households will find a dark surprise when they open their doors: thousands of kids handing out fair trade chocolate. | |
| Buying Power |
| 07/10/08 | |
| This South Centre Analytical Note looks at the donor-driven agenda in the reform of public procurement-–the rules that guide government purchasing of goods, works and services--as one of the major components in the good governance agenda being incorporated by donors into their aid programmes. | |
| Liberalization of Trade in Health Services |
| 02/05/08 | |
| The right to health is bestowed on human beings through national constitutions and various international legal instruments that have been signed and ratified by many, if not all, governments of the world. Inherent herein is the right to access basic health services; which imposes an obligation on states to ensure that these services are universally accessible to all their constituents. | |
| Patents, Compulsory License and Access to Medicines: Some Recent Experiences |
| Martin Khor | 05/25/07 |
| Access to medicines has emerged as a major public health issue, especially with the impact of patents on the prices of drugs. Developing countries can take advantage of flexibilities in the WTO Trade-related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement, such as compulsory licensing. To do so they must now establish appropriate provisions in their national patent legislation. | |
| A West African Union |
| Seth Kaplan | 04/05/07 |
| Debt relief will offer West African states short-term help, but a strong regional organization is needed to cure deep-rooted troubles. Local leaders must be given the authority and responsibility to develop such an organization, but they will need the financial and technical support of the international community if they are to succeed. | |
| Ernest Aryeetey |
| Professor Ernest Aryeetey has been appointed the new Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research of the University of Ghana, Legon. |
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