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General Globalization Terms
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ARTICLE IS FROM 2007. VISIT OUR HOMEPAGE FOR NEW CONTENT.Globalization, with its many associated benefits and costs, is a confusing topic for most people. This page provides...
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City Growth Can Be 'A Force for Good'
As more and more people move to cities leaders must prepare to deal with the negatives and positives associated with a new urban environment.Urbanization is inevitable, but it can also be positive....
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War Costs Africa USD 18 Billion Annually
Africa's wars have destroyed resources that could have benefited the continent's people.Africa loses billions of dollars a year to conflict. Photo Credit: Stock.xchng.com A new study shows that...
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Little Countries Speak Up on Climate Change
December's United Nations climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia could have ended in a logjam of indecision until Kevin Conrad, spokesperson for Papua New Guinea, took the floor challenging the...
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The Complexities of Food Aid in Sudan
Along the banks of the Nile River in Sudan is some of the most fertile land in Africa. In fact, “Sudan could be self-sufficient, it does have the potential to be the breadbasket of Africa,” notes Kenro...
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Bad News For Free Markets?
It’s too soon to tell exactly how the U.S. financial crisis will impact the rest of the world, but, according to a report in The New York Times, the U.S. has just lost some free-market street cred.In...
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A Billion for a Billion
Keeping with a UN target of committing 0.7 percent of national income to alleviating poverty and hunger, Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero the prime minister of Spain has pledged 1 billion euros to...
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Building Blocks
Even UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was surprised by the large number of people who greeted him in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya. But his surprise quickly became concern when he was told...
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Airport Donations Take Off
How do you make up a yawning gap in funding for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria? By asking airline passengers to pay an extra two bucks when they book their ticket. Time reports that UNITAID, a...
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A Climate of Displaced People
It should be no surprise that armed conflicts force millions of people from their homes each year. In fact, 4.6 million people were displaced by conflict and war in 2008. But I was shocked to learn...
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Five things to know about the 7 billionth human
On Monday, the world welcomed its 7 billionth person. The implications of population growth are similarly staggering in number, but here are five of the more important things to know about the growing...
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U.N. on electricity: Green growth needs a good grid
What can the world’s poorest hope to achieve without energy access? Not much, according to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.“Energy is central to everything we do – from powering our economies...
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Food quality is more important than quantity, UN says
When it comes to global food security, more doesn't always mean better.As the international community prepares for the UN's Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development in June, the UN Department of...
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Who is really rich? Measuring beyond GDP
Costa Rica topped the 2012 Happy Planet Index of global wealth largely due to its environmental protection policies. Photo: Erik Mandell for MercyCorpsBy one measurement, Costa Rica is now the richest...
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UN group: Vast numbers of unemployed youth threaten global stability
The swelling ranks of unemployed youth threaten to create a lost generation that endangers the global economic system, a new report warns.The world's 75 million unemployed youth are dangerously...
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