World

The rich world is trying to ditch the poor while world trade binds us closer together…

'We make or break human life every day of every year as probably no other force on earth has ever done in the past or will ever do again.' Strangely enough these are the words of an economist from the International Monetary Fund…

Is there enough food? Is population, weather or science to blame for famine? New Internationalist replies to some myths about world hunger.…

Homing in on the global banking institutions such as the IMF and World Bank…

Peter Adamson on why we've been trying the wrong key in the development lock.…

Are we really helping the developing world or is overseas aid a waste for the people it's meant to help and Western taxpayers? …

Modernising agriculture usually means drawing peasant farmers further into the cash economy…

A survey of the substantial progress by the Third World in the education, the health and the life expectancy of its people.…

A survey of world population trends, and a guide to national demographic statistics.…

Perceptions of world population…