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Current Feed ContentMeeting Africa’s Urgent Development NeedsWorld Bank President’s Proposals Target Key Areas: Food, Minerals and Innovative Financing The World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick announced a package of proposals designed to help African countries address rising food and commodity prices, create new opportunities for managing wealth earned from high energy and mineral prices in a more inclusive way, and generate long-term liquidity by tapping into sovereign wealth funds. The speech “A Challenge of Economic Statecraft” was...MSF releases tenth annual 'Top Ten' most underreported humanitarian stories of 2007The countries and contexts highlighted by MSF on this year's list accounted for just 18 minutes of coverage on the three major U.S. television networks' nightly newscasts from January through November 2007 People struggling to survive violence, forced displacement, and disease in the Central African Republic (CAR), Somalia, Sri Lanka and elsewhere often went underreported in the news this year and much of the past decade, according to the 10th annual list of the "Top Ten"... |