A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. No region is immune. The poor...

Power, rights, and poverty reduction / - Ruth Alsop and Andrew Norton -- - Linking power and poverty reduction / - Rosalind Eyben -- - Rights, power and poverty reduction / - Caroline Moser -- - Power relations and poverty reduction / - David Mosse -- - Empowerment and institutional change :...

Strong cyclical dynamics, together with an easing of macroeconomic policies in the United States and elsewhere, have boosted large parts of the global economy, into the initial phase of a recovery in 2002. Nonetheless, the global recovery is fragile, because investment spending is insufficient...