Issues & Trends

Mark Tran

Almost twice as many obese people in poor countries than in rich ones as fat and sugar consumption rises, warns ODI

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe

Mighty River Jordan matters more than any other river – for three religions, for the people living alongside it, for thousands of years of history and as both a joint resource and a dividing line for countries in today's rather difficult political environment.

JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

LAST month, as I was driving down a backbreaking road between Goma, a provincial capital in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kibumba, a little market

Denise Chow, Aug 26, 2013

Nearly 70 percent of the groundwater stored in parts of the United States' High Plains Aquifer — a vast underground reservoir that stretches through eight states, from South Dakota to Texas, and supplies 30 percent of the nation's irrigated groundwater — could be used up within 50 years, unless c

Terra Lawson-Remer

How should the status and progress of a country or people be measured and judged?

Kathryn Floyd

WASHINGTON, DC:  The Diplomatic Courier and 

John Helliwell, richard layard and Jeffrey sachs

Katherine Connor, The Daily Transcript

Xinhua

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Tuesday warned that by 2030, half the people on Earth would be living under "water stress," a measure defined as less than 1,700 cubic meters of water available per person per year, unless action was taken.

BBC News

Nearly 30 million people around the world are living as slaves, according to a new index ranking 162 countries.

The Global Slavery Index 2013 says India has the highest number of people living in conditions of slavery at 14 million.