China Alone Abides by Commitments to World’s Poorest
By Raul de Sagastizabal The WTO member countries are moving towards the Eighth Ministerial Conference in Doha next December, again with no concrete results, even on issues relating to least-developed Countries More...
Is there a Role for Human Rights in a Free Trade World?
Up to 50,000 people a day die from poverty related causes with 22,000 of these fatalities being children under the age of five. The plight of the world’s most impoverished and vulnerable people have been further More...
Tackling Financial Exclusion in Europe
The term financial exclusion was first coined in 1993 by geographers studying the impact bank closures had on those left unable to access basic banking services. During the 1990s there was a significant increase More...
100 Million Driven into Poverty By Healthcare
According to the latest annual report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) this Monday healthcare costs force 100 million people into poverty every year. The report further highlights how around 1,000 More...
Trade Not Aid?
Despite pledges on the part of donor countries in 1970 to spend 0.7% of GNP on official development assistance (ODA), this target is still proving elusive 40 years later. However, many would argue that ODA is not More...
In Rwanda: A helping hand (and an exit strategy)
By Jim Devries, Executive Vice-President of Programs for Heifer International based in Little Rock, Arkansas and Danielle Nierenberg, senior researcher at the Worldwatch Institute. Recovery is a word you More...
Time to Revisit the Millennium Development Goals?
In the midst of the economic and financial ‘bonfire of the vanities’, which continues to smoulder around us, it becomes even more difficult to consider the plight of the poor and the destitute who reside in More...
Poverty in the Southern Hemisphere
Despite the wondrous technological developments and global wealth generated since the start of the 19th century, billions of people continue to live in the direst conditions of poverty. One of the most prevalent More...
The ongoing persecution of Haiti
Today Haiti is most commonly known for being the poorest country in the ‘western’ hemisphere and a land wracked by destitution and despair. This picture has only been reinforced by the horrific consequences More...
Global Inequality
To a large extent, the reality of global inequality is ignored or at best downplayed. However, this has not always been the case. Indeed, in the early 1950s, the first UN resolutions on development focused on inequality More...
