Eric Neumayer (LSE): Human Development and Sustainability. Chiung Ting Chang (Maastricht): Live Long and Prosper Without Economic Growth? Possibilities in Developing Countries. From Boston Review, a symposium: Can technology end poverty?, including contributions by Kentaro Toyama, Nicholas Negroponte, Ignacio Mas, and Christine Zhenwei Qiang. Greg Easterbrook on the United Nations Human Development Report, one of the world’s most significant documents. A new way of looking at the Human Development Index illustrates substantial differences between countries with similar levels of human development. Geocurrents tales a look at the World Bank’s Development Base Map and the developing world — and the de-developing world. How much is 50 million lives worth? Actually, $7.4 billion. Shall we discuss poverty? Immanuel Wallerstein wants to know. Is there a secret weapon for fighting poverty? What resource curse: Is it really true that underground riches lead to aboveground woes? What makes countries corrupt: If we really want to combat corruption we must deal with the broader and much harder challenges of economic development. From New Internationalist, should nation-states open their borders to refugees and migrants? Two experts debate immigration. From TED, Auret van Heerden on making global labor fair. Is the WHO becoming irrelevant? Why the world's premier public health organization must change or die.
