Last year we received some fantastic news. It seems that the UN’s first Millennium Development Goal of cutting the 1990 extreme-poverty rate in half by 2015 has already been achieved. This means that the proportion of people living in extreme poverty (living on $1.25 or less a day) has been reduced from 43 % in 1990… Continue reading Millennium Development Goal achieved – What’s next?
Category: Asia
Emerging Economies in 2013
Which countries will be the economic success stories of 2013? William Easterly, professor of economics at New York University, and Dambisa Moyo, author of “Dead Aid – Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa” and “Winner Take All –China’s Race for Resources and What It Means for the… Continue reading Emerging Economies in 2013
Myths and Facts of a Converging World
“It this terrible simplification that there is one Africa, and things go on in one way in Africa. We have to stop that, it is not respectful, and it is not very clever to think that way. I had the fortune to live and work for a time in the United States. I found out… Continue reading Myths and Facts of a Converging World
The rise of Asia
Hans Rosling is a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker. He is Professor of International Health at the Karolinska Institute. Rosling was a young guest student in India when he first realized that Asia had all the capacities to reclaim its place as the world’s dominant economic force. At TEDIndia in November 2009,… Continue reading The rise of Asia