Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Development'
Leaked Development Plan Raises Land Grab Fears in Mozambique
by Janet Gunter, Global Voices, Netherlands - Against a backdrop of growing concern about ‘land grabs‘ in Africa and the conversion of smallholder agriculture to large-scale commercial agriculture, a leak from a controversial economic development plan has raised alarm in...
Q&A: ‘Empowering Girls Alone Will Not Bring Social Change’
by Joan Erakit, IPS News, Italy - The Global Education First Initiative stands at the forefront of this week’s Learning Ministerial Meetings in Washington, D.C., underscoring the importance of education in the development of the global economy. Josephine Bourne, UNICEF...
No Cause for Fear
by Bina Shah, The Dawn, Pakistan - Twenty women in leadership roles from various industries — finance, the corporate sector, law, publishing — sat down and talked about how Pakistan can promote women role models who are at the forefront...
Economy in Motion
by Lídice Valenzuela, Latinamerican Press, Peru - Two years after the reforms to the Cuban socioeconomic model began, one must ask: have substantial changes to the life of this Caribbean nation of 11 million people been observed? What is missing...
Is the ‘China Dream’ Really a ‘Strong Military Dream’?
by Rachel Wang, Tea Leaf Nation, China/USA - On March 3, an article entitled “Focusing and Building up a ‘Strong Military’ Dream” appeared on the front page of the PLA Daily. At first glance, the article appeared to be a...
Q&A: Climate Change Front and Centre in Cuban Development Model
by Ivet González, IPS, Italy - Each of Cuba’s 168 municipalities faces the challenge of designing its own strategic development to minimize the impact of problems caused by global warming, and Cuba's ongoing reform aims to empower local governments legally,...
World Cancer Day Aims to Dispel Stereotypes
by Liz Szabo, USA Today, USA - Cancer is not just a health issue, advocates say....
Renowned French Economist to Join Obama’s Team
by Aude Mazoue, France 24, France - France’s Esther Duflo, a star economist who was once named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, has been nominated by US President Barack Obama to help shape US...
Dismal Numbers
by Bina Shah, Dawn, Pakistan - A lot of attention has been given over the years to the particular risks for girls in the tribal areas of northern Pakistan, but even in the villages of Sindh, conservative attitudes and traditions...
The Purpose of U.S. Aid to Egypt Needs Re-Examining
by Thalia Beaty, Daily Star, Lebanon - o see U.S. foreign aid as a faucet that should turn on and off when the Egyptian government steps out of line with U.S. policy is fundamentally incorrect both in terms of how...
Caribbean Faces Increasing Fury of Storms
by Patricia Grogg, IPS, Italy - After the tragedy caused by Hurricane Flora, the Cuban government decided to preserve human life first and foremost, and created a disaster prevention and preparedness system that is now renowned for reducing deaths to...
The Brasilia Consensus, a Model for Latin America
by Estrella Gutiérrez, IPS, Italy - Following the extreme neoliberalism of the Washington Consensus, which gave rise to a lost decade in social terms, Latin America is experimenting more successfully with a home-grown formula: the Brasilia Consensus, which combines the...
Accessing Science as a Human Right to Development
by Jan Piotrowski, SciDev, UK - Making access to science a human right is a worthy goal, but how can it be enshrined? And will it really deliver?...
Self-Financing that Works for the Poor
by Estrella Gutiérrez, IPS, Italy - “Eighty percent of poor people in the world have access to credit through informal systems. But these sources are insecure and they do not add value for their users. They need to be adapted...
Hydropower Dam to Flood Sacred Amazon Indigenous Site
by Fabiola Ortiz, IPS, Italy - The Sete Quedas or “seven waterfalls” on the Teles Pires River, which runs through the Amazon rainforest states of Mato Grosso and Pará in central Brazil, are a spiritual oasis venerated by several indigenous...
Indonesion Women and Development
by Nikki Edwards, Inside Indonesia, Australia - Indonesian women have been the target of hundreds of gender-focused development programs but to what effect?...
Big Problems But a Big Future
by Elizabeth Donnelly, Chatham House, UK - Whether by accident or design, Nigeria is destined to become Africa’s largest economy. The kind of economic growth it will experience in the coming years and the extent to which this will transform...
Women Can’t Count If They Aren’t Counted
by Anna Skibinsky, The Epoch Times, USA - Global development suffers from poor data on women, say Clinton, World Bank....
The 'Having It All' Debate Should Include Women Who Have Nothing
by Amy Walburn, The Atlantic, USA - It is our responsibility as educated career women to understand more comprehensively what the quest to "have it all" really means. It means that we need to fight for women's equality everywhere....
Africa: Investing in Women Is Smart Economics
by Angela Machonesa, Gender Links, South Africa - Women stand at the crossroads between production and reproduction, between economic activity and the care of human beings, and therefore between economic growth and human development....
Angola's Chinese-Built Ghost Town
by Louise Redvers, BBC, UK - The ghost towns of China, Ireland and Spain - full of large empty house estates - may be a phenomenon that is on its way to Africa....
Lack of Healthcare Provisions in a Disease-Stricken Land
by Zuha Siddiqui, Dawn, Pakistan - Walk along the bustling road opposite the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and you won’t miss the malnourished men lying on footpaths, waiting for a doctor to hand them a prescription for a drug...
Women Must Be at the Forefront of Rio+20, and Beyond
by Isabelle de Grave, IPS, Italy - Unlocking women’s energies and allowing them to become drivers of change could fuel the motor of sustainable development. The question is whether world leaders meeting at the Rio+20 summit in Brazil will squander...
Indonesia Is Wilting
by Alexandra Di Stefano Pironti, IPS, Italy - Unless the rapid deforestation in one of the world’s most richly-forested countries is controlled, Indonesians may one day wonder, "where are all the flowers gone." To those lyrics by legendary U.S. singer...
Vietnam's Climate Woes Ignite National Strategy
by Vanya Walker-Leigh, Asia Times, Hong Kong - Vietnam, hailed as a development success story for lifting millions out of poverty and staying on track to meet all its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, is seeing its future progress...
Floods Push South Asian Cities to Plan for Climate Change
by Amantha Perera, AlertNet, UK - Experts warn that the effects of climate change, including more extreme weather patterns, could worsen the problems now faced by cities like Colombo and Dhaka, where millions live or commute daily to work. Limited...
Sex, Reproduction, and the MDGs
by Mandy Van Deven, RH Reality Check, USA - Why Funding for Reproductive Health Care is Critical to Combatting Global Poverty...
The Internet Indians
by Ilka Franzmann, Al Jazeera, Qatar - In the Brazilian Amazon, environmentalists, scientists and politicians are facing one of the most difficult challenges of our time. If the earth's lungs collapse, the planet itself will collapse....
For a New Highway, from Rio to Delhi
by Estefanía Marchán, The Hindu, India - Brazil and India can benefit from each other's experience for an inclusive development agenda....
Global Hunger: Do the Figures Add Up?
by Claire Provost, The Guardian, UK - Four years ago, soaring food prices and reports of food riots from West Bengal to Mexico made headlines worldwide and fuelled a new demand for global hunger figures. How have people been affected...
Development Aid Dutch Style – with an Eye to Profit
by Maike Winters, Radio Netherlands, The Netherlands - Constructing water systems in a village in Ghana, training courses for South African farmers, better education in a little school in Kenya. These aren’t the first things you think of when talking...
China's Home Price Protests Fail to Budge Discount Developers
by Olivia Chung, Asia Times, Hong Kong - Protests by Chinese homeowners objecting to price cuts on new purchases for similar properties appear unlikely to halt more reductions, as developers struggle to maintain sales and cash flows....
Why Digital Privacy and Security Are Important for Development
by Tanya Notley, The Guardian, UK - Digital technologies, such as mobile phones and the internet, provide the development sector with new opportunities to plan and co-ordinate activities, expose hidden truths, and mobilise and engage new audiences. But it's not...
Why So Much Is Going Wrong Everywhere at Once and How Life Teaches Us to Fix It
by Olga Bonfiglio, Energy Bulletin, UK - Already we are seeing five symptoms of Critical Mass occurring in both rich and poor countries, including our own: hyper-urbanization, joblessness, poverty, dislocation and disease....
How Do You Solve Poverty?
by Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario, Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia - The most serious and perhaps convincing strategy so far to directly attack poverty is to give outright cash to the poor. No grief, no drama, just a simple handout of money....
Spirits High in South Sudan Despite Unresolved Issues
by Miriam Gathigah, IPS, Italy - As South Sudan prepares to cede from the North, it faces tremendous challenges towards building a nation and a sense of nationhood....
The World’s Poorest
by Wendy Kristianasen, Le Monde diplomatique, France - "This situation is not sustainable. While a bottom billion lives on less than $1 a day, the rest of the international community cannot turn a blind eye to their sufferings.”...
Kenya on the Verge of a Major Demographic Transition
by Christine Mungai, The East African, Kenya - To reap the benefits of this urban transition, massive investment is needed to support the pressure of an increasing population, particularly in housing and infrastructure. This is imperative not only to create...
Investing in Women and Girls in Africa: Is ‘Smart Economics’ and Brand Aid the Appropriate Approach?
by Katherine Austin-Evelyn, Consultancy Africa Intelligence, South Africa - International development experts have been criticising the dangers of ‘shopping well to save the world’ and ‘investing in a girl to eradicate global poverty.’...
Women Empowered by Restoring Desertified Land
by Helda Martinez, IPS, Columbia - Indigenous and rural women from southern Tolima, a province located in the heart of Colombia, are lending a hand to the bleak land around them, with the aim of simultaneously recovering the ecosystem and...
African Women's Decade
by Eden Yohannes, Ezega, Ethiopia - The African women's decade, as planned, should be the decade of opportunity for African women through the practical, moral and legal realization of a Grassroots Approach to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment that ought...
Turks in Africa
by Ayse Karabat, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Turkey wants to remain a permanent factor in Africa, it must criticize wrongdoing and find a way to transfer its experience, but not in the manner of “white men coming to teach Africa.”...
Development Partners Approving of Philippines' Budget at Development Forum
by Gloria Jane Baylon, Manila Bulletin, Philippines - Citing the quality of the first budget of the administration of President Benigno Aquino III, the Government of Australia is among the first of Manila’s development partners to commit early to his...
How Can We Achieve Development Goals if We Ignore Human Rights?
by Annie Kelly, Poverty Matters, UK - Amnesty International's new general secretary Salil Shetty says poverty and exclusion will continue unchallenged unless human rights take centre stage in development policy. Is he right?...
Questions About China’s "Win-Win" Relationship With Angola
by Louise Redvers, IPS, Italy - Crouched on their haunches on the edge of a crumbling pavement, a group of Chinese construction workers are eating noodles from tin bowls, wearing floppy straw hats under their green safety helmets to protect...
Rare Photos of the Lands that Became the United Arab Emirates
by Rym Ghazal, The National, UAE - In 1959, when Salim Zabbal went out in search of forgotten villages in Kuwait for a new Arab-language magazine, he encountered a group of men who spoke of their "tough life" back home...
Skyscrapers and Ghost-Houses: at Hanoi’s Periphery
by Elizabeth Rush, Le Monde Diplomatique, France - Hanoi’s development, and in particular the changes to the built environment of the city, are nothing short of hallucinatory. Cau Gaiy is a district on the outskirts of Hanoi. Previously an agricultural...
A Critique of “The Girl Effect”
by Anna Carella, Aid Watch, USA - Rather than attempting to increase men’s domestic workload, the girl effect calls on women to carry the dual burden of housework and wealth creation....
"Child Marriage Is a Form of Violence Against Women"
by Cléo Fatoorehchi, IPS, Italy - At the start of this month, the U.S. Senate unanimously adopted the 'International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act'. Women's rights groups are now urging the Congress's lower chamber to pass it before...
Arab Region Tries to Move Closer towards Ending Poverty
by Reem Leila, Al Ahram, Egypt - Arab countries are required to find solutions to tackle with poverty lines, says the Arab report on 2010 Millennium Development Goals....
Economic Boom Worsened De-industrialisation of LDCs
by Isolda Agazzi, IPS, Italy - Least developed countries (LDCs) in Africa did not use the commodity export boom of the mid-2000s to diversify their economies from commodity dependence to manufacturing value-added products. Significantly, the agricultural sector has also not...
Women Just Need Their Dignity Respected
by Felogene Aguno, Daily Nation, Kenya - Mothers as a group form the cornerstone of any healthy society. Not only do they give physical birth to new life, they give moral and intellectual birth to children who will become productive...
It’s Time to Focus on the Forgotten Fisheries
by Janeen Madan, Nourishing the Planet, USA - While marine fisheries are under increasing scrutiny, those based on river and lake systems rarely engage the international community- an oversight of potentially profound implications....
Food Security as if Women Mattered: A Story from Kerala
by Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, One World South Asia, India - Kerala, hailed as God’s own country, attributes its high development indices to the local women. Through their group, Kudumbashree, these women are not only rejuvenating the local agrarian economy but are...
Southern Sudan Must Wean Itself From the Aid Bandwagon
by Rasna Warah, Daily Nation, Kenya - Rich donors to Africa have a tendency to take credit for many of the continent’s achievements. But donor interventions in Africa are not always altruistic, and are quite often detrimental. Sceptics have often...
Lessons in Microfinance: Can the Asian ‘Success Story’ be Repeated in Sub-Saharan Africa?
by Fiona Dwinger, Consultancy Africa Intelligence,South Africa- The Grameen Bank has risen to become the institutional star praised by proponents of microfinance, today providing services to around 6 million borrowers in Bangladesh alone. The question is whether the same financial...
The Total Failure of Global Aid in Haiti
by Michelle Chen, ColorLines, USA - With his country still in ruins 10 months after disaster struck, Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive recently told Reuters, “If the whole international community cannot solve the problem, along with the Haitians … it...
Chavez Visits Russia to Land Social Housing Deal
by Olga Razumovskaya, Moscow Times, Russia - Russia and Venezuela signed an agreement to create a master plan to develop Caracas through 2020, and Chavez allocated $500 million to finance the first stage of the project....
The Challenge of Meeting the Targets
by Farhana Urmee, The Star, Bangladesh - Bangladesh recently received a Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) award for attaining significant success in bringing down the rate of child mortality. Experts doubted the success adding that the first thing is to...
Noble Vision for the Developing World: Blindness
by Lynnette Hoffman, The Australian, Australia - Experts had a hunch that rates of blindness in the Southeast Asian country of Burma were high. Eight per cent of adults over 40 who were sampled in a regional area of...
Focus on Women and Girls Key to MDG Success
by Janet Fleischman, AllAfrica, Mauritius - The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama, which has made women and girls a cornerstone of its Global Health Initiative, should seize the opportunity to turn these enlightened MDG goals into effective policies and...
Giving Birth Should not Be a Death Sentence for Our Women
by Agnes Odhiambo, Daily Nation, Kenya - When a woman dies from pregnancy or childbirth, it is not just a personal tragedy, but proof of how shamefully little many countries have done to tackle maternal mortality....
The Trade-Off Between Food Security and ‘Development’
By Thingnam Anjulika Samom, InfoChange India, India -Most of Manipur’s population, especially people in the valley area, depend on the lake’s fish and vegetation resources for their nutrition and food security. The Loktak hydropower project has given them a few...
After Long Conflict East Timor Enjoys Tourism Boom
by Kim Bowden, Pacific Scoop, New Zealand - East Timor has had its fair share of foreign visitors but most did not stop over for a holiday. Recently holiday-makers have started trickling into the fledgling nation. And this time...
Nigeria: Women Politicians Demand End to Maternal Deaths
by Hajiya Bilkisu, Daily Trust, Nigeria - Last week women aspirants from all the states of the federation gathered at the Ladi Kwali Conference Centre of the Sheraton Hotel, Abuja....
Carbon Trading: The Real Threat Facing Africa?
by Jan Anton Hough, Consultancy Africa Intelligence, South Africa - Current initiatives to mitigate global warming such as reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD projects), vulnerable local communities in Africa that depend on such forests, might face a...
Tensions Between Rwanda and Western Backers
By Linda Slattery and Ann Talbot , World Socialist Web Site, USA - Tensions began to emerge between President Paul Kagame and his Western backers in the course of the recent elections. Media reports criticised the exclusion of opposition parties...
Big in Africa
by Tessa Thorniley, Danwei, China - Multi-billion dollar resource and infrastructure deals between China and African countries make the business headlines ever more regularly, but there are very few reports on the growing numbers of Chinese entrepreneurs and small...
Gender Inequality Seen as a Major Obstacle in Meeting MDGs
by Dessy Sagita, Jakarta Globe, Indonesia - The decision-making process is a nightmare for many women, and they risk death by just waiting for their husbands to get home....
Niger's Markets Are Full Yet Famine Shadows the Dusty Roads
by Afua Hirsch, Guardian, UK - Expensive imports and aid remain out of reach for 12 million people facing country's worst food crisis in years....
LiveAid - The Kind of Help that Ultimately Harms
by Mandy de Waal, The Daily Maverick, South Africa - As LiveAid marks 25 years comes news that a movie will be made about Sir Bob Geldof, the man who made “kwashiorkor kid” the poster child for Africa, reducing a...
Malaysia: How to Protect the Rights of Indigenous Penan Women?
by Sandra Low, The Star Online, Malaysia - The Penan community in Sarawak has been under an uneasy spotlight since its women and girls’ claims of rape and sexual abuse emerged in 2008. The alleged accused are logging companies’ employees...
A Better Path For Haiti's Recovery
by Ruth Messinger, Change.org, USA - It appears that Haiti's "15 minutes of fame" are up. With few exceptions, the journalists who flooded the zone following the earthquake are nowhere to be seen. And the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations...
Which Way Nigeria?
by Maureen Chigbo, Newswatch, Nigeria - As Nigeria marks its 50th anniversary, the prognosis is not very encouraging. Many youths remain jobless while 70 percent or our population, nostly in the rural areas, live in abject poverty. With Nigeria...
Mobile Phones for Development
by Nmachi Jidenma, Next, Nigeria - At present, Africa is home to about 450 million mobile phone subscribers and with an anticipated growth rate of about 12 per cent by 2013, it looks like there is no stopping it. With...
Getting Women from Micro to Mezzo
by Ritu Sharma, Bloomberg Business Week, USA - Microfinance is an effective tool to reduce global poverty, but the U.S. can do more to increase opportunity for the poorest women....
Involving All People in Policy Formulation
by Pamela Philipose, The New Nation, Bangladesh - As the global community prepares to review its progress on the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) this September, many civil society activists in India see the process as an opportunity to...
Images of the ‘Dying African’ Border on Pornography
by Rasna Warah, Daily Nation, Kenya - There is an image of Africa etched in the Western psyche that is hard to erase. It is the image of The Dying African: When not being ravaged by war or famine, this...
Empowering the Mothers of Africa
by Grace Mukasa, The Guardian, UK - With gender empowerment, you only stop to take a breath. You do not quit. There is no one single way to do it. And it is a lifetime commitment...
Why Ethiopia is Not the Voice of Africa
by MG Zimeta, The Prospect, UK - It gets a disproportionately large slice of Africa's aid, but the Ethiopian regime does not act in the best interests of its citizens or its neighbours. So why has the G20 made the...
Did the Aid Industry Fuel the Mayhem in Somalia?
by Rasna Warah, Daily Nation, Kenya - Somalia celebrates 50 years of independence this week, but many people are wondering whether there is anything worth celebrating....
Development Redefined: A Holistic Vision in Bangladesh
by Suzanna Finley, Yes!, USA - Bangladeshi activists promote development that's rooted in indigenous knowledge and community values....
South Africa: Renewing the Promise of Education for All
by Laure Pichegru, IPS, Italy - The World Cup is wreaking havoc with a key millennium development goal in South Africa: as the football tournament hit its stride, not a single child across the nation attended school....
Drukonian Moves
by Sheela Reddy, Outlook India, India - Bhutan is swearing by happiness. But is it such a good thing? An overwhelming 97 per cent of Bhutanese are happy—45 per cent very happy, 52 per cent happy and the remaining...
How the Diaspora Will Rebuild Haiti
by Elizabeth Lazar, The New Internationalist, UK - Haitian expats have consistently comprised the largest giving source to Haiti, far exceeding that of any foreign donor before the quake. The cumulative force of the Diaspora is both formidable and...
USAID and US Development Strategy
By Nancy Birdsall and Sarah Jane Staats, GlobalPost, USA- In insider Washington there is a battle going on over who will control U.S. global development strategy....
REDD: Seeing the forest for the trees
by Khadija Sharife, Pambazuka, Kenya - There’s a difference between carbon emissions in developed and developing countries – that of ‘extravagant’ carbon versus ‘survival carbon’, for the provision of basic services such as electricity. But it is a distinction that...
Cruel Ethiopia
by Helen Epstein, The New York Review of Books, USA - This East African nation, famous for its ancient rock-hewn churches, Solomonic emperors, and seemingly intractable poverty, has a long history of famine. Meles’s Ethiopia is now the subject...
Playing Politics with Dying Mothers
by Margaret Wente, The Globe and Mail, Canada - Aid groups aren’t the only ones playing politics with dying mothers. Western politicians just can’t help themselves. To hear them talk, maternal health boils down to contraception and abortion....
The Business of Disaster: Where's the Haiti-Bound Money Going?
by Beverly Bell and Tory Field, Common Dreams, USA - Of the U.S. money, 40 cents on every dollar goes to the U.S. military... Less than one cent goes to the Haitian government....
How should development be carried out in 'fragile states'?
by Eliza Anyangwe, The Guardian, UK - With up to one billion people (one-third of the world's poor) living in what are termed 'fragile states', the ease and frequency with which national disputes cross borders to become regional conflict...
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