“My life has totally changed. Now I am earning money from the
Internet and I come to know a lot of new things. Internet is really
amazing.”
- Male, from Madurai, India, ...
http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/online-outsourcing-global-job-opportunity-everyone
At a technical meeting of the g7+ group of fragile states
[http://www.g7plus.org/], participants from Haiti to Timor Leste
gathered with a mission: to sift through the many p...
http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/making-2030-sustainable-development-agenda-work-fragile-and-conflict-affected-states
[UN news] Global growth disappointed again in 2015 - slowing to 2.4
per cent - and is expected to recover at a slower pace than previously
envisioned, the World Bank Group sai...
http://allafrica.com/stories/201601080161.html
European countries are diverting development and humanitarian aid to
tackle the refugee crisis. But a severe lack of funding and
restrictions on aid donations undermine the ef...
http://www.euractiv.com/sections/development-policy/international-aid-efforts-dwarfed-scale-refugee-crisis-320770
Brazil is facing a disturbing spike in a severe birth defect called
microcephaly. Babies are born with heads that are far too small, a
sign that the brain failed to fully deve...
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/351/6269/110.summary?rss=1
2015 will arguably be remembered for the arrival of a free Windows 10,
but there were plenty more goings on within the UK tech channel –
including several big acquisitions, ...
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pcr/stream/~3/1GvPiWO-YWk/037360
Despite the unparalleled global influence of the Gates Foundation,
legislators are mostly silent about the negative repercussions of
large-scale giving. In Washington, DC, the...
http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/34321-beware-of-philanthro-capitalists-bearing-gifts
BY DOMINIC BROOM, HEAD OF TREASURY SERVICES EMEA, BNY MELLON
The era of FinTech is upon us. In a short period of just a few years,
there has been a sea-change in the way i...
https://www.sibos.com/media/news/fintech-gearing-future-payments
Rich countries' development aid hit a record high in 2014, but the
share that reached the world's poorest countries was the lowest since
2006, the Organization for Economic Co...
http://www.voanews.com/content/rich-nations-aid-hit-record-high-poorest-nations-got-less/3132549.html
Climate change will have some pretty terrifying consequences. Experts
have predicted everything from deadly heat waves and devastating
floods to falling crop production and ev...
https://newrepublic.com/article/126948/19-corporate-giants-plan-make-money-off-climate-crisis
After spending a couple years simply as a reader of the content on
DKOS, I’ve decided the time has come for me to write my first diary.
In the past, DKOS was where I receive...
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1465651