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Breaking the ice in the South China Sea
By Fidel V. Ramos - Oct 13, 2016 - Last updated at Oct 13, 2016 22:24
Three months ago, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled that there was no legal basis for China to claim historic rights to ...
Making girls count
By Babatunde Osotimehin - Oct 11, 2016 - Last updated at Oct 11, 2016 22:43
“Is anyone out there even thinking of improving our lives?” asks Susmita, a teenager from Odisha, India.Susmita has never gone to school. ...
‘Good’ urbanisation: an investment and a way of life
By Joan Clos - Oct 02, 2016 - Last updated at Oct 02, 2016 22:31
Urbanisation is a human process that has led to profound changes in the daily life of more than half of the world population.The way our cit ...
Air pollution’s true costs
By Simon Upton - Oct 02, 2016 - Last updated at Oct 02, 2016 22:30
Air pollution takes years off people’s lives. It causes substantial pain and suffering, among adults and children alike. ...
‘Big win for Jordan’
By Nabil Al-Sharif - Sep 24, 2016 - Last updated at Sep 24, 2016 22:42
While many countries in the region are being torn apart by wars and sectarian divisions, Jordan last week held parliamentary elections that ...
Innovation and its discontents
By Calestous Juma - Sep 24, 2016 - Last updated at Sep 24, 2016 22:42
Technological innovation is often extolled for its power to overcome major development challenges, fuel economic growth and propel societies ...
The World Bank’s recipe for irrelevance
By Devesh Kapur - Sep 21, 2016 - Last updated at Sep 21, 2016 22:41
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim’s nomination for a second term is inexorably moving forward with a lack of transparency that has become al ...
Water — imperative for development and security
By Erik Ullenhag and Anders Jägerskog - Sep 20, 2016 - Last updated at Sep 20, 2016 22:50
A few weeks ago, the world’s largest annual global water policy meeting, the World Water Week (www.worldwaterweek.org), was held in Sto ...
Investment or tax — which should prevail?
By Firas T. Malhas - Sep 19, 2016 - Last updated at Sep 19, 2016 22:35
Under a new regulation adopted in 2016 regarding investments by “non-Jordanians”, a “non-Jordanian” company that is registered outside Jorda ...
Daesh’s problem with women
By Fatima Sadiqi - Sep 18, 2016 - Last updated at Sep 18, 2016 22:59
It is telling that women feature heavily in the Daesh’s rise and fall.While Daesh’s craven massacre of Yazidi women in Iraq and Syria helped ...

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