• It Is Time For A Social Stock Exchange

    Prof Muhammad Yunus, Yunus Centre

    Many of the problems in the world today persist because of a too-narrow interpretation of capitalism. Most businesses today are run based on the assumption that people are selfish and interested solely in maximizing their own profit. This is a very one-dimensional view of humans who in reality are very multidimensional. As much as selfishness is part of us, so is selflessness, but the selfless dimension is not taken into account in economic theory.  more[...]

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    Prof Muhammad Yunus, Yunus Centre 
     

  • In India, a community works to change sanitation and hygiene practices

    Eleven-year-old Sharda and half a dozen friends beat drums and chant slogans as they walk through the narrow lanes of Lalapur. Their message is: make the remote village in Uttar Pradesh free from open defecation.  more[...]

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  • African leaders urged to invest in jobs, infrastructure and protecting development gains

    African Development Bank (AfDB)

    n unprecedented gathering of experts in Kigali, present and former African Heads of State urged business, community and political leaders to help turn the continent’s impressive growth into economic opportunities for ordinary citizens.  more[...]

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  • Africa’s social diversity: an asset for democracy

    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

    African leaders, international organizations and civil society representatives will meet in Botswana’s capital, Gaborone, for the next three days to discuss Africa’s diverse social fabric and how it can serve as an asset for democracy and development.  more[...]  login_required

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  • UNDP-led partnership unveils key to successful community-driven sustainable development projects

    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

    The Equator Initiative - a United Nations-led partnership which recognizes the success of local sustainable development projects with the biennial Equator Prize - has launched a series of 127 case studies and a volume of “lessons-learned” outlining the key components of successful, community-based development initiatives.  more[...]  login_required

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  • The Times they are A-Changing

    Anders Dahlbeck, ActionAid

    In 2008, ActionAid started campaigning to remove biofuels targets that are having a detrimental effect on poor and marginalised communities around the world. We did so in response to calls from communities and partners we work with in the global south, for whom the impact of biofuels production was becoming untenable. Countless cases of land grabs by multinationals to produce industrial biofuels for export to rich countries were the main issue.  more[...]  login_required

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    Anders Dahlbeck, ActionAid 
     

  • World Bank President Calls for “Solutions Bank” to Meet Global Challenges

    World Bank

    World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today told the Bank’s shareholders he wants the institution to become a solutions Bank that can work with partners and help “bend the arc of history” to eliminate extreme poverty.  more[...]  login_required

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  • 3 Imperatives for the Next Global Development Agenda

    World Resources Institute (WRI)

    Can extreme poverty be eliminated in the next 20 years? With much of the world still mired in an economic slump, the question might seem ill-timed. Yet, as heads of state arrive in New York on Monday for the 67th United Nations General Assembly, this goal should be at the top of the agenda.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Enabling the graduation of LDCs: Enhancing the role of commodities and improving agricultural productivity

    UNCTAD - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

    The world financial and economic crisis has reversed recent growth trends in the world’s poorest nations, dampening the prospects that half of the 48 least developed countries (LDCs) will be able to “graduate” from that status by the end of the decade, as called for by last year’s international conference on LDCs, UNCTAD research shows. The present study, which is the outcome of ongoing work by the UNCTAD secretariat on LDCs, assesses the challenges, opportunities and prospects for meeting the criteria for graduation, particularly by enhancing the role of commodities and improving agricultural productivity.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Climate Investment Fund

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  • CIF 2012 Partnership Forum

    Climate Investment Fund

    The Forum, a global gathering of CIF’s diverse stakeholders, will offer plenary and parallel sessions to explore ways to maximize CIF’s effectiveness. At the Forum, the AfDB will lead a session on “Enabling Environment as an Engine for Private Sector Contribution to Sustainable Development” on November 6 from 2:00-4:00 pm. The event features discussions on Legal and Regulatory Frameworks, Fiscal Risks and Incentives and Technical Capacity and Procurement Methods.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Migration and Global Environmental Change - Future Challenges and Opportunities

    Editorial Team

    This report considers migration in the context of environmental change over the next 50 years. The scope of this report is international: it examines global migration trends, but also internal migration trends particularly within low-income countries, which are often more important in this context.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Rethinking the Role of the State in Finance - Global Financial Development Report 2013

    World Bank

    The worldwide financial crisis brought into relief the role of financial systems in economic development and poverty reduction. The World Bank’s first-ever Global Financial Development Report contributes to the policy debates on this topic, building on new datasets, surveys, research and country experience, emphasizing the perspective of low- and middle-income countries. The report re-examines a basic question highlighted by the crisis: what is the proper role of the state in financial development?  more[...]  login_required

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  • Upgrading slums in Brazil - where more can be done more efficiently

    Over the past decade, Brazil has made important progress in legitimizing illegal settlements in big cities. However, according to a new study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Cities Alliance, the Ministry of Cities, and the Caixa Econômica Federal (CEF), the technical capabilities of Brazilian municipal governments need to be strengthened if improvements are to be integrated into housing and urban policies that can be implemented in the city as a whole.  more[...]  login_required

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  • FAO releases first status report on urban gardening in Africa

    Food and Agriculture Organization

    Africa's urban population is growing faster than that of any other region, but many of its cities are not keeping pace with the increasing demand for food that comes with that growth. A new FAO publication says policymakers need to act now to ensure that African cities will be "green" enough to meet their nutrition and income needs in a sustainable way.  more[...]  login_required

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