Keep girls in schools to end hunger and poverty, Sachs tells governments
Rome, ItalyThomson Reuters Foundation Keeping girls in schools in Africa is key to lowering the fast-growing continent’s high fertility rates and ultimately ending hunger and poverty, US economist Jeffrey Sachs said Wednesday. Failure to do would bring more misery and suffering to the region, he warned, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa where nearly one in four […]
Global leadership deficit leaves development goals in doldrums
Thomson Reuters Foundation The world has made far too little progress on the global goals governments agreed in 2015 to end poverty and hunger and tackle climate change, with a rising tide of nationalism acting as a wrecking ball, architects of the goals said on Thursday. Helen Clark, a former New Zealand Prime Minister who […]