NewsRack: 'International Development' news in 'Economics and Jobs-National' topic for user flenvcenter

Richard Miller read ...

GENEVA — Youth unemployment is likely to rise globally to 12.8 percent by 2018, wiping out gains made in the recent economic recovery, the U.N.'s...

I submitted the following brief comments to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as part of a government request for input on Canada's participation in a plurilateral international services agreement . read ...

Q. and A.: Using Books to Build a Ladder Out of Poverty

Off the Charts: Stimulus Lets Developing Economies Recover More Quickly

Jason Hickel

Developing countries will need about $531 billion of additional investments in clean energy technologies every year in order to limit global temperature rise to 2° C…

By Lesley Wroughton and Alonso Soto WASHINGTON/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Leaders from the world's major emerging economies are likely to endorse plans at a summit next week to create a joint foreign exchange reserves pool and an infrastructure bank for developing countries, senior emerging market officials said on Thursday. Leaders from China, Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa, known as the BRICS, will gather in the coastal city of Durban, South Africa, on March 26 and 27. ... ...

Research shows that developing countries will need about $531 billion of additional investments in clean energy technologies each year in order to limit global temperature…

I recently watched a TV segment featuring the two founders of a partnership called the One Woman Initiative, which, as they describe it, promotes entrepreneurship and job opportunities for women in developing countries. Among other things, they described one of their projects in Uganda, a trust fund for women farmers, and noted that a $150 microloan can change the life of a woman, her family and her community.

Welcome to Alberta, the Richest Place on Earth, where body lice are showing up on residents of homeless shelters, an affliction normally associated with Third World refugee camps. Earlier this week, University of Alberta infectious diseases specialist Dr. Stan Houston warned colleagues in an email of "a very powerful health indicator of the kind of poverty we are seeing (and creating) in this, one of the wealthiest political jurisdictions in the world." To wit, said Houston: "Last week, for the first time in my life, including seven years in Africa, I saw a patient of mine with a body louse infestation. He had been living in city shelters, so there has to be more where that came from." Houston added that he had immediately notified public health authorities. read ...

Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw helped build organizations dedicated to nutrition and improved the health of children in developing nations by making affordable gruels.

Nevin S. Scrimshaw, 95, world leader in nutrition science in academia and developing countries

Although medical advances and understanding of the causes of cancer have made it less of a killer than it used to be,it is estimated that during the current year the worldwide death toll from cancer will reach 8 million. The majority of these cases are in the developing world.

President Obama has been a strong supporter of foreign aid throughout his first term, but unlike his predecessor, he has yet to translate his support into an enduring legacy on global development. As he enters his second term, the president should take several steps to cement that legacy.

Slavoj Žižek

In one of the last interviews before his fall, Nicolae Ceausescu was asked by a western journalist how he justified the fact that Romanian citizens could not travel freely abroad although freedom of movement was guaranteed by the constitution. His answer was in the best tradition of Stalinist sophistry: true, the constitution guarantees freedom of movement, but it also guarantees the right to a safe, prosperous home.