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Finance & Development June 1, 2005 Cohen & Bloom	Cultivating Minds Educating all the world's children well is not only urgent but also feasible within the next few decades.
Finance & Development September 2010	Regaining Momentum Progress on the Millennium Development Goals has been slowed by the crisis. The rest of the world has to help.
Finance & Development December 1, 2000 Gupta, Hammond, Leete, & Swanson	Progress Toward the International Development Goals It is easy to lose track of the improvements that have occurred over time in the lives of poor people in many developing countries....
Finance & Development June 1, 2005 Baldacci et al.	What Does It Take to Help the Poor Spending on education and health can boost human capital in poor countries and help them reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but only if governments are held accountable.
Finance & Development June 1, 2007 Lewis & Lockheed	Getting All Girls into School New ways are needed to educate "excluded girls" in developing countries.
Finance & Development September 2010	Making a Breakthrough To accelerate progress toward the Millennium Development Goals, growth must happen in sectors that directly benefit the poor, such as agriculture.
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Saavedra & Arias	Stuck in a Rut Avenues for combating persistent poverty and inequality in Latin America.
Finance & Development March 1, 2003 Eken et al.	Living Better Improving human development indicators in MENA will require different approaches to health, education, and social protection
Finance & Development December 1, 2001 Evangelos A. Calamitsis	The Need for Stronger Domestic Policies and International Support Globalization is a powerful engine of world prosperity, and it is certainly here to stay. Income disparities remain large. The basic issue is what policies and reforms are most likely to bring about sustainable economic growth for the benefit of all the peoples of the world.
Finance & Development December 1, 2000 Nora Lustig & Nicholas Stern	Broadening the Agenda for Poverty Reduction: Opportunity, Empowerment, Security Experience from the 1990s has led to a poverty reduction agenda that, in addition to promoting economic growth, addresses ingrained inequalities, institutional failures, social barriers, and other risks.
Finance & Development March 1, 2006 Dorothea Schmidt	Globalization at Work The world economy has been expanding strongly... In 2005, the world's labor force ages 15 and older... The global unemployment rate in 2005 was 6.3%... Almost half of the world's unemployed are under 25... etc.
Finance & Development September 1, 2005 Berg & Qureshi	The MDGs: Building Momentum A big push on aid is not the sole answer. International development policy needs to move beyond aid and aim for actions that, together with stronger reforms in developing countries, cohere into a broader big push.
Finance & Development September 1, 2006 Jimenez & Murthi	Investing in the Youth Bulge With the right investments, developing countries can turn their large youth populations into a boon.
Finance & Development June 1, 2005 Laura Wallace	Picture This Report Card on Primary Education Children everywhere are spending more years in school than ever before but positive global trends in educational participation mask large disparities between the world's richest and poorest countries.
Finance & Development March 1, 2003 Edward Gardner	Wanted: More Jobs High unemployment in the MENA region presents formidable challenges for policymakers
Finance & Development June 1, 2005 Wu, Kaul, & Sankar	The Quiet Revolution How India is achieving universal elementary education.
ifeminists April 22, 2003 Carey Roberts	UNICEF's One-Sided Pursuit of Gender Equality This Special Report analyzes the UNICEF sex-specific programs for girls and boys.
Finance & Development September 2010 Jagdish Bhagwati	Time for a Rethink It is hard to object to the Millennium Development Goals, but that doesn't mean they lay out an effective blueprint for development
Finance & Development September 2010 Jeremy Clift	From the Editor: The Promise of the MDGs THE Millennium Development Goals are eight international development targets that all 192 United Nations member states and a large number of international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015.
Finance & Development March 1, 2000 Nora Lustig & Omar Arias	Poverty Reduction Although Latin America and the Caribbean reduced the incidence of poverty during the 1990s, population increases and the greater income inequalities that had developed during the 1980s stymied the region's efforts to reduce the number of poor people. How can its policymakers fight poverty most effectively and better protect the poor during economic crises?
Finance & Development March 1, 2002 Alain Mingat & Carolyn Winter	Education for All by 2015 At the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal, in 2000, officials from 180 countries set a challenging goal: ensuring access to primary education for all children by 2015...
Finance & Development December 2010 Sara Elder	Youth for Hire The global economic crisis has led to the highest youth unemployment rates ever.
Finance & Development September 2008	Dialogue Box F&D asked a number of opinion leaders around the world to answer the question, What's the single thing most likely to double living standards in poor countries over the next decade?
Finance & Development September 2011	A Bigger Slice of a Growing Pie Developing the financial sector accelerates economic growth and can enhance income equality.
ifeminists September 16, 2003 Carey Roberts	The Radical Feminist Take-Over at the U.N. Once Americans find out how much the gender feminist agenda now pervades the UN, public support will continue to plummet.
Finance & Development March 2011 Alicia Barcena	Spreading the Wealth Poverty and inequality have declined in Latin America in recent years, but there is a lot more to do.
ifeminists June 22, 2005 Carey Roberts	The Politics of Social Destruction at the UN Gender mainstreaming has become the Sisterhood's ploy to hijack the UN's Millennium Development Goals and turn them into another platform to advance its destructive agenda. US House of Representatives, beware.
ifeminists November 5, 2002 Wendy McElroy	Equal Access Does Not Guarantee Equal Outcome The election's postmortem analysis will be haunted by a shrill complaint: "Not enough women were elected!" The accusation should be ignored because there is no proper ratio of female versus male office holders.
IDB America March 2005 Charo Quesada	The Legacy of Beijing Ten years after the Fourth World Conference on Women, modest advances are outweighed by persistent deficiencies in global gender equality.
Finance & Development December 1, 2000 Ernesto Hernandez-Cata	Raising Growth and Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Can Be Done? Sub-Saharan Africa must increase economic growth to reduce poverty and improve living standards. This article discusses some obstacles to growth in the region, as well as some policy actions that would improve its prospects.
ifeminists June 17, 2003 Carey Roberts	Please Add Me to Your Blacklist The Canadian government recently published a report that recommends monitoring and prosecution of gender equity advocates under federal hate crime laws.
Reason February 2001 Cathy Young	Where the Boys Are Is America shortchanging male children?
Finance & Development December 2011 Antoinette Sayeh	The Quality of Growth The questions that continually nag at me concern the quality of this growth in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, is it inclusive -- are the poor and the young benefiting -- and is it sustainable?
Finance & Development September 1, 2006	Global Demographic Trends During the past 50 years, the world's population has increased dramatically -- a trend that is projected to continue. Most future growth will occur in less developed countries, where the population is increasing more than five times as fast as that in developed countries.
The Motley Fool March 23, 2011 Alyce Lomax	Boards Need Women Over the last few decades, women have made great strides toward gender equality in many arenas -- but not on corporate boards.
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ifeminists June 15, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Missing: Males on College Campuses Some researchers call them the "Lost Boys." They are the students you don't see on college campuses. New statistics show an annual decreasing ratio of male-to female students in all degree-granting institutions.
Finance & Development June 2009 Donald Kaberuka	Straight Talk: Start This Engine Africa's policymakers should prepare for global recovery by priming their private sectors.
Finance & Development March 2008 Wang & Bio-Tchane	Africa's Burgeoning Ties with China Africa and China have been trading partners for centuries. But in recent years, the level and intensity of their relationship have increased dramatically.
Salon.com January 26, 2000 Cathy Young	Out with the old and out with the new Feminism of every stripe has failed. It's time for a gender equality movement.
Fast Company November 17, 2011 Anya Kamenetz	The Case For Girls Most would-be parents prefer boys, not girls. Is part of the trouble, dare we say, a branding problem - one that advertising could solve?
IEEE Spectrum December 2009 Prachi Patel	Math Quiz: Why Do Men Predominate? It's culture, not biology.
Salon.com February 5, 2002 Amy Benfer	Lost boys While girls surge ahead in all subjects at school, boys are lagging behind. Is "girl power" to blame? Do boys need their own dose of "empowerment"?
Finance & Development June 2010	Picture This: Reducing Child Mortality Despite progress, under-5 child mortality rates remain unacceptably high.
IDB America January 2005 Charo Quesada	Not Quite Equal Under the Law A new study of justice and gender equality shows that Latin America has made progress in its legislation but is lagging in practice.
ifeminists January 31, 2007 Carey Roberts	Twilight Zone Politics at the UN At the United Nations, the mantras of "gender equality" and "female empowerment" have crowded out notions of what ordinary persons used to call "fairness" and "truth."
HBS Working Knowledge May 15, 2015 Carmen Nobel	Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom Women whose moms worked outside the home are more likely to have jobs themselves, are more likely to hold supervisory responsibility at those jobs, and earn higher wages than women whose mothers stayed home full time, according to research by Kathleen McGinn and colleagues.
ifeminists December 17, 2002 Lindsay McNutt	The Glass Ceiling: It can't be shattered if it doesn't exist Women who boast the pride of their feminist views are fast to use the glass ceiling or gender gap idea in order to explain why they can't get jobs or move ahead based on their own personal merit. The glass ceiling and gender gap ideas can not ever be tried theories because they do not exist.
Chemistry World December 10, 2015 Maria Burke	Report paints picture of a healthy global scientific landscape The number of people working in research around the world has grown by 21% between 2007 and 2013 to 7.8 million, according to the Unesco Science Report, which tracks trends in science, technology and innovation around the world.