http://uk.oneworld.net/article/archive/1928 en_GB_uk http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/161444/1/1928 Reflections on a divided world, posted weekly by Bill Gunyon, Editor of OneWorld Guides http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162796/1/1928 Governments are responding to public disgust at financial greed by increasing taxes for high earners. But it's a reminder that becoming a little less rich does not address extreme global inequalities. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85090 A new site which aggregates civil society opinion about the global financial crisis, based on the premise that the political response so far is wholly inadequate. from Bretton Woods Project http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162452/1/1928 Tanzania is often described as a development success story in Africa. It doesn't look that way if you study the facts of life for the poor. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162165/1/1928 We're seeing a lot of headlines about global unemployment. But is it really "global" or just a measure of problems for the richer countries? http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84873 Beautifully written explanation of the contribution of post War history to the structural faultlines that impede development in northern Ghana. Pambazuka News http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162118/1/1928 Would global poverty feature in the new president's inauguration speech? Yes it did, but let's hope that Barack Obama adopts rather less biblical language when it comes to real policy. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84668 Despite driving poor communities off their land and patently failing to deliver carbon emissions reductions, lobbyists for big industries and institutions such as the World Bank were active in Poznan climate negotiations pushing for further deregulation and expansion of the market-based Clean Development Mechanism. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/161780/1/1928 The food and financial crises have wiped out nearly 20 years of progress on reducing hunger, warns a leading development group, reacting to new UN figures show the number of hungry has risen to 963 million. + Number of hungry people rises to 963 million http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/161361/1/1928 Forced displacement is on the increase around the world, with the number of refugees now topping 11.4 million and internally displaced people at 26 million, says the head of the UN refugee agency. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160440/1/1928 UN Security Council needs to discuss the current global food crisis and take corrective measures before the situation goes out of hand. Experts feel that the UN body must recognise that war and civil strife cannot be prevented without addressing social and economic conditions. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160397/1/1928 India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has increased the bargaining power of the poor, felt participants at a recent consultation by Indian anti-poverty network WNTA in the capital. They also called for increased investment by the government for effective monitoring of the scheme. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160391/1/1928 Soaring prices of food items are making it difficult for poor countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Any long-term planning has to focus on MDGs and cross-sectoral linkages with adequate budgets if governments wish to tide over the present crisis, says Salil Shetty, Director of the UN Millennium Campaign. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160362/1/1928 Hot weather and lack of safe drinking water have led to a severe spate in diarrohea cases in Bangladesh. According to health experts, poverty, rising food prices and low levels of awareness on sanitation are driving people to eat cheap contaminated food. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160285/1/1928 Transparency International’s new report calls on leading oil and gas companies for greater transparency in payments made to governments of resource-rich countries. Host governments need to enforce and enact regulations for an equitable exploitation of their oil and gas wealth to help fight poverty, the report adds.