Eric Neumayer (LSE): Sustainability and Inequality in Human Development. A review of Global Inequality Matters by Darrel Moellendorf. The introduction to Humanitarianism and Suffering: The Mobilization of Empathy by Richard Ashby Wilson and Richard D. Brown. Gullible Travels: Poverty tours give new meaning to “slumming it”. Jimmy Chalk writes in defense of slum tourism. Who represents the poor? Pranab Bardhan on the limits of the NGO movement in global development. The price is right: How the world can buy its way out of poverty for just $100 billion. Can this woman change the world? Meet Esther Duflo, the rock-climbing professor tipped for a Nobel prize, whose radical thinking on global poverty has earned her the ear of the world’s most powerful politicians and philanthropists. A review of Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind by Jeffrey G. Williamson. Jagdish Bhagwati on why free trade matters. Ursula Casabonne (World Bank) and Charles Kenny (CGD): The Best Things in Life are (Nearly) Free: Technology, Knowledge and Global Health. From UN Chronicle, a special issue on the ongoing battle against HIV/AIDS. From Global Post, a special report on Healing the World. David E. Bloom and David Canning (Harvard): Global Demography: Fact, Force and Future. Demography isn't destiny, one hopes: Good and bad news from the UN’s population projections (and more and more). 10 Billion Plus: Why world population projections were too low. Was Malthus right? Population growth is outstripping food supplies — unless farm productivity increases rapidly, the cost of food can only go up. Lester Brown on the new geopolitics of food: From the Middle East to Madagascar, high prices are spawning land grabs and ousting dictators — welcome to the 21st-century food wars. Chug for growth: Drink and be merry — it's all for the common good.
