developing world and to the livelihoods and welfare of their people. Climate change is the classic example. Despite the risks …

Many of the world's poorest and most fragile states are joining the ranks of oil and gas producers. These countries …

, however, poverty has not fallen so dramatically; as a result, most of the world's poor now live in middle-income countries … (MICs). In fact, up to a billion poor people — or a new bottom billion — live not in the world's poorest countries but in …

global economy more effective, more legitimate, and more responsive to the needs of the bottom half of the world's population …

The World Food Programme has world-class logistics, but its ability to manage financial risk is extremely limited. The … operations. Donor contributions to the proposed Food Security Trust Fund at the World Bank would further support WFP hedging …

The world rice market was aflame last spring and for several months it looked as if the trading edifice that had … exhibited such resilience over the last two decades was going to burn to the ground. World prices trebled within less than four … the Philippines did not to set the world market on fire, that was the unintended result of their actions which threatened …