Inequality

Image of a solar panel, with light glinting off it.
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The OECD’s latest report begins to bridge the growing divide between international institutions’ focus on green growth, and developing countries’ need for greater equity.
A mom and her newborn baby at the Maternal & Child Health Training Institute in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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The UN Secretary General's High-Level Panel has published their set of recommendations for international development. What is the verdict? How do the Panel’s goals ‘score’?
The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in the Great Hall of the People, uniformed in identical suits, red ties, and side-parts.
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China’s new conservative leadership means any changes to help the country's environment will come through the existing policy framework, and not an overhaul of the system.
Close up picture of a baby's foot.
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No one unequivocally and wholeheartedly said development assistance worked at yesterday’s debate on whether it had a future. All three panel speakers saw the need for a radical change in approach.
Occupy London protestors outside St Paul's Cathedral.
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Humans are made up of two halves – the heart and head, and the lower bit, "stomach, sex and kicks.” Focusing on the middle tells you nothing about the two extreme halves.
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