STWR - Share The World's Resources

The UK and EU are keeping the poorer nations exactly where they want them: beholden to their patrons

The yawning wealth gap in 'booming' China is badly hampering foreign attempts to help the country's have-nots

We can deal with climate change only with the help of governments. So far, however, when confronted with a choice between the two sacred commodities - market freedom and human life - the one they have chosen to preserve is market freedom, writes George Monbiot.

The world's most developed nations have reaffirmed the need to provide debt relief to poor countries.

The world's richest countries are failing to provide the funds needed for education in the developing world, the Global Campaign for Education has said.

Women fruit pickers in South Africa endure 'pitiful conditions', says report

The fight against extreme poverty can be won, but only if Bush recognises that military might alone won't secure the world

Liberal handwringing over the World Bank simply reflects a failure to recognise the role it exists to fulfil.

The appointment of Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank has little to do with his personal credentials, writes Robert Hunter Wade