STWR - Share The World's Resources

The world is heading for a "heavily signposted human development disaster" of needless child deaths, illiteracy and abject poverty

The world's poorest people are being denied access to drugs because pharmaceutical companies are focusing their resources on diseases suffered by wealthy, middle-aged Americans, such as obesity and heart disease, a leading expert will say tomorrow.

Three months ago Bob Geldof declared Live 8 had achieved its aim. But what really happened next?

There's been a lot of hand-wringing going on among economists and politicians, and a lot of fuming at the gas pump by consumers over the soaring price of oil over the last two years.

Devinder Sharma argues that much of the agrarian crisis in India is the result of such 'unwanted' and 'cost-intensive' technologies that have been forced on small scale farmers.

The G8 proposals on debt and aid represent serious progress, but the devil may still peer out of the details during its implementation. It is essential we all scrutinise them closely, as Mark Curtis does (Comment, August 23). He is right to point out the obfuscation in the OECD's method for counting debt and aid into an overall development assistance number, mixing both the ongoing aid flows with the bookkeeping of debt relief, as if they were equal parts.

Japan and Germany need to raise economic growth sharply if the world economy is to correct its growing imbalances, particularly the US current account deficit, a United Nations organisation said yesterday.

Three fifth of Bangladesh is now under water. About 50 million people are thrown from bad to worse conditions. Not everybody is suffering; there is a small section of people who feel joy with the rising water. They find their business (from alu-patal to fund stealing to huge (re)construction potential to flood control consultancy) booming.

A senior United Nations official has accused President George Bush of "doing damage to Africa" by cutting funding for condoms, a move which may jeopardise the successful fight against HIV/Aids in Uganda.