In terms of textiles Bangladesh and Sri Lanka emerged as the rising stars. Their rise came at a cost of millions of jobs in the US, Europe, South America and India. So now on the one hand the world market was glutted with cheap goods from China, the cost that every other nation was...
The benchmark projections of poverty by country imply a high speed of poverty reduction in South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific, fueled by the high rates of income per capita growth in India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Philippines, China and Pakistan. Substantial reductions in poverty in Sub-Sahar...
Dr. Judith Curry is a climatologist, former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology and president ofClimate Forecast Applications Network. She is in the forefront of the climate skeptic movement, often drawing fire from others...
One major factor that has been reported to contribute to chronic poverty and malnutrition in rural Haiti is soil infertility. There has been no systematic review of past and present soil interventions in Haiti that could provide lessons for future aid ef