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...last a sensible comment on foreign aid for education. One of the easiest projects to fund in developing countries is building a school. Schools are useless without teachers and teachers in developing countries are poorly educated and qualified. Many daunting problems would evaporate if all the world was similarly well educated. A step in that direction would be to channel educational aid into a massive project to send all newly qualified teachers from richer countries on a gap year to teach in an underdeveloped country. The teachers are young, fresh and motivated and would inspire their pupils likewise. Joanna Perry...
...last a sensible comment on foreign aid for education. One of the easiest projects to fund in developing countries is building a school. Schools are useless without teachers and teachers in developing countries are poorly educated and qualified. Many daunting problems would evaporate if all the world was similarly well educated. A step in that direction would be to channel educational aid into a massive project to send all newly qualified teachers from richer countries on a gap year to teach in an underdeveloped country. The teachers are young, fresh and motivated and would inspire their pupils likewise. Joanna Perry...
...though, the markets are finding it tough to trust Athens. At the World Economic Forum in Davos rumors swirled - despite assurances to the contrary by Greek and E.U. officials - that Greece was on the brink of a default and would need a bailout from Brussels or the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - or even get booted out of the E.U. altogether. "If any other country was making the kinds of adjustments that we are, it would be applauded," says Papaconstantinou. "In our case, they are not sure we are actually doing it." (Read: "Why Greece Could Be the Next Dubai...
...wake of the 9/11 attacks, the West moved quickly to crack down on the money laundering and secret banking systems that fund much of the terrorism in the world. But as evidence in both the U.S. and Europe suggests, illicit finances continue to circulate around the globe - and quite often the money has nothing to do with violence, but plain greed. Indeed, a new report released by the U.S. Senate this month cites cases of huge volumes of suspect cash being moved from Africa to the U.S. for no other reason than to fatten the bank accounts of crooked leaders...
...their habitat, which once stretched in Asia from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea, has shrunk by more than 90% over the past century, and it's shrinking still. "We once had more than 100,000 of these animals," says Sybille Klenzendorf, the director of the World Wildlife Fund's U.S. Species Conservation Program. "There's a real chance that we will lose this animal in our own lifetime...