economies

Women Empowerment Holds the Key for Global Development

By Diego Arguedas Ortiz
Latin America's inclusion of women in its development model, with greater participation within the work force and improved wage conditions, was a decisive factor in the region's successful diminishment of extreme poverty. 

Analysis: Are Young People the Answer to Africa’s Food Security?

By Busani Bafana
Are you young, energetic, creative, ambitious and need a job? Africa's agriculture sector needs you!

No Woman, No World

By Sean Buchanan
Almost exactly two years ago, on the morning of Apr. 24, over 3,600 workers – 80 percent of them young women between the ages of 18 and 20 – refused to enter the Rana Plaza garment factory building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, because there were large ominous cracks in the walls. They were beaten with sticks and forced to enter.