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Ending Poverty by 2030: Sharing Prosperity with the Bottom 40%
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- March 1, 2016
By Christopher Lakner, Mario Negre, and Espen Beer Prydz While the world has seen a rapid reduction in extreme poverty in recent decades, the goal of “ending poverty” by 2030 remains ambitious. The latest estimates show that in 2012 almost 900 million people (12.7% of the world’s population) lived below the $1.90/day threshold (based on 2011
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Women’s Development in Afghanistan: Ensuring Sustainable Gains
- Analysis
- February 29, 2016
International Women’s Day should be marked by acknowledging that claims — made by the international community and the Afghan government — of advances in promoting women’s rights in Afghanistan are largely disconnected from reality. Human Rights Watch and the Afghan Women’s Network agree. Gains were made in the initial years after the expulsion of the
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Obama’s “ghost camp” haunts him still
- Analysis
- February 29, 2016
The infamous Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, built by the U.S. after the 9/11 attacks to house captured terrorists, is fast becoming a ghost camp. Over the years, some 800 detainees have been held at Guantanamo; the number is now down to 91 detainees and set to shrink still further, with an additional
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Information Might be the Key to Dealing with North Korea’s Nuclear Threat
- Analysis
- February 18, 2016
By David Slinn Dealing with North Korea is not easy. Dealing with a dictatorship never is. It took the West 45 years to overcome the challenges posed by the Soviet Union. North Korea has now developed into a serious threat to regional and global security. Hiding the file at the bottom of the “Too Difficult”
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