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Sign up to be a Global Citizen: http://www.globalcitizen.org/ The 2015 Bill and Melinda Gates Letter: http://www.gatesnotes.com/2015-annual-letter In which J... 
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DO POVERTY traps exist? Academics seem to think so. According to Google Scholar, so far this year academics have used the phrase “poverty trap” 1,210 times....
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More people have access to mobile phones than to bog-standard sanitation around the world
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Jayati Ghosh: Asia’s ‘success’ in reducing poverty uses a flawed system for measuring income and ignores food insecurity
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It's been one year since the Bangladeshi factory collapse which killed more than 1,130 garment workers. Can the odd pang of consumer guilt be reconciled with this unfathomable tragedy?
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Corporations really could make the world a better place -- if only the U.N. and state governments would treat them as equal partners.
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Major development projects in middle-income countries to be scaled back as reforms promise focus on policy and advocacy
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asSorry, haters, when it comes to foreign aid -- of all sorts -- the United States is far and away the most generous nation on Earth.
Glenn Morris's insight:
US aid
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As World Economic Forum starts in Davos, development charity claims growing inequality has been driven by 'power grab'
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SOME unlikely things combined to change Gabriel Otieno Anoche’s life. A satellite passing over east Africa took pictures of his roof. Some keen-eyed people in the...
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Glenn Morris's insight:
Jeffrey Sachs model for development.
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Take me to your infrastructure practice THE World Bank may need a period of quiet reflection, but this was ridiculous. On September 10th 300 bankers joined Thich...
Glenn Morris's insight:
On the World Bank
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EXTREME poverty has been halved in the last 25 years, but hunger and malnutrition are far from being eliminated
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The company spent a year preparing to enter the former pariah state. Will it be a trailblazer or a cautionary tale?
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New 'light touch' rules on bank's $50bn annual lending have been gutted to remove protections, watchdogs claim
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FIFTY years ago the first United Nations Conference on Trade and Development launched a debate about how much money rich countries should give to poor ones to reduce...
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A New York tycoon won a sweetheart deal to build a massive "sustainable" palm oil plantation in Cameroon. What followed were accusations of intimidation, corruption, bribery, and deceit.
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Are conditional cash transfers really the silver bullet to raising countries out of poverty?
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Factory owners who initially opposed demands for higher minimum wage agree to increase after PM's intervention
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How development experts have empowered dictators and helped to trap millions and millions of people in poverty.
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All funding for environment programs to end, as Coalition focuses aid on countries it needs to support its asylum policy
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Bangladesh's low-skilled workers are at the end of the line, write Ben Doherty in Dhaka and Sarah Whyte.
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