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Does microfinance work?
With all the media hype surrounding new online lending platforms, such as Kiva.org, the time is right to ask if microfinance really is an effective poverty reduction tool
Biofuels: a right to food perspective
Jean Ziegler, vice-chairperson of the Advisory Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2000-2008).
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Every five seconds a child below ten years of age dies from hunger. Every four minutes somebody loses his/her eye-sight from a lack of Vitamin A. Every day 25,000 people [...]
Bioenergy development in sub-Saharan Africa
Stephen Karekezi and John Kimani – AFREPREN/FWD (Energy, Environment, and Development Network for Africa), a non-governmental organization based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Recent high oil and coal prices, as well as an intensified debate about climate change, have led many analysts to suggest that modern bioenergy development could mitigate the negative impacts of unstable fossil fuel [...]
Prosperity without growth…?
Economic growth is supposed to deliver prosperity. Higher incomes should mean better choices, richer lives, and an improved quality of life for us all. That, at least, is the conventional wisdom. But things haven’t always turned out that way.
Is ‘green growth’ really possible?
At a logical level, the answer to the question is a resounding yes.
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