Development

He has some suggestions over at Vox for how to make sure those selling the land benefit: * Ensure adequate transparency by either following or adopting similar transparency standards to those contained in theExtractive Industry Transparency Initiative; * Ensure that the projects conform to best social and environmental practices by either committing

From an Obama news conference at the G-8: when my father traveled to the United States from Kenya to study, at that time the per capita income and gross domestic product of Kenya was higher than South Korea's. Today obviously South Korea is a highly developed and relatively

Development aid can be very controversial.  Are we giving enough?  Is it for the right projects?  Is it effective?  Does it harm specific groups?  Despite these tough issues, here is an example of a program with long-term benefits that I think just about everyone can get behind: Japan will build