Jeffrey Sachs

The treaties signed at the first Rio sum­mit failed – and it’s up to our gen­er­a­tion to make amends, says econ­o­mist.

Oba­ma’s nom­i­na­tion sig­nals that it’s time for a de­vel­op­ment pro­fes­sion­al to lead the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

The World Bank re­quires a pres­i­dent that un­der­stands de­vel­op­ment and sus­tain­abil­i­ty, not an­oth­er Wall Street banker.

Sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment has the po­ten­tial to ad­dress fun­da­men­tal chal­lenges for hu­man­i­ty, now and into the fu­ture.

Va­clav Hav­el, who died this month, led the charge for truth and free­dom from the re­pres­sion of the for­mer So­vi­et Union.

The ICT rev­o­lu­tion can pro­vide means to achieve holis­tic health­care in new and pow­er­ful ways.

Glob­al­i­sa­tion ef­fects all cor­ners of the world, yet re­quires more gov­ern­ment con­trol, not less, says writer.

In Bhutan, na­tion­al pol­i­cy em­pha­sis­es in­creas­ing peo­ple’s hap­pi­ness, rather than in­come.

Ar­ti­fi­cial po­lit­i­cal bound­aries, glob­al warm­ing, and high fer­til­i­ty rates are wors­en­ing famine in the Horn of Africa.

Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Ban Ki-moon’s re­elec­tion proves his con­tin­u­ous ef­forts in the UN, and the many hopes that lie ahead.