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Empowering Women in East Asia Requires Cultural Changes, not just Economic Development raising literacy rates and reducing extreme poverty to a greater extent that conventional development ... in parliaments, affirmative action in education and incentives to encourage families to keep their daughters ...
Scarcity: The Mother of Invention that have helped it deal with limited resources, particularly energy. • With resource scarcity becoming ... way to hedge against future scarcity. Microfinance is an innovation meant to address poverty ... to chaos and collapsing systems. Leadership is needed to cope with scarcity, to take action before ...
Leapfrogging to Low-carbon Growth Renewable energy must become cheaper. For many developing countries, fighting poverty is a priority. Consumer awareness about “green” energy is growing. A new industrial revolution is needed to bring about ... Keywords: Energy, environment, politics, budgets, development, poverty ...
Remodelling Europe skills will be needed. Public-private partnerships will be important in areas such as energy ... Gemma Mortensen , Executive Director, Crisis Action, United Kingdom; Young Global Leader Jean ...
Rethinking Social Protection Systems health-care and poverty. “All need solutions, hence there will be problems. We cannot speak of an ideal system ... to complement state action to relieve the burden”. For social entrepreneurs and non-governmental ... Challenge, Pensions, fiscal policy, budgets, migrations, unrest, health, poverty, politics. ...