Graham Mayeda (Ottawa): Pushing the Boundaries: Rethinking International Law in Light of Cosmopolitan Obligations to Developing Countries. Koen Decancq (KUL): Global Inequality: A Multidimensional Perspective. Alberto Chong (IADB) and Mark Gradstein (Ben-Gurion): Who's Afraid of Foreign Aid? The Donors' Perspective. Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins (UNICEF): Global Inequality: Beyond the Bottom Billion — A Rapid Review of Income Distribution in 141 Countries. Randall Peerenboom (La Trobe): The Future of Law in a Multipolar World: Toward a Global New Deal. Alice N. Sindzingre (CNRS): Poverty Traps: A Perspective from Development Economics. Can the planet support 10 billion people? There's room for debate. The myth of 9 billion: Why ignoring family planning overseas was the worst foreign-policy mistake of the century. Sarah Ruden on the Christian case for family planning aid. From The European, the World Bank wants to fight poverty, yet its organizational structure prevents sustainable policy; and the machinery of global governance is changing — influential states from the Southern hemisphere are emerging as the old world is losing its political and economic influence. Andrew Linford on the difficulties calculating inequality and the Gini Coefficient. More than 1 billion people are hungry in the world, but what if the experts are wrong? A review of Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee's Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (and more). Andrew Linford on global inequality: Where is it found? A review of Getting Better: Why Global Development is Succeeding — And How We Can Improve the World Even More by Charles Kenny (and more and more and more and more). A recent UNICEF report points to increasing economic inequalities and suggests that those in power, even in democracies, want it that way.
