Subject: Developing countries (Keywords)

'Currently I am working in an operating theatre of a military hospital. There is no running water. From time to time I have to go in a light plane and retrieve people from afar. The case yesterday near the Ethiopian border was a small boy who had been shot in the jaw and the bullet went down thro...

Who should be allowed to immigrate and who not is one of the most pressing questions of our time. Paul Collier lays out the effects of encouraging or restricting migration, exploring this volatile issue from three perspectives: that of the migrants themselves, that of the people they leave behind...

Review: With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries...

A compelling and persuasive look at the social transformations needed to cope with our environmental crises. As this major German bestseller reports, our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. On the one hand, we have never been so well off; on the other hand, we find destruction ...

In Seeds of Science, eco-activist Mark Lynas lifts the lid on the controversial story and misunderstood science of GMOs. In the mid-1990s, as the global media stirred up a panic about the risks of genetically modified crops, Lynas destroyed crop fields and spoke out in the press...until he realiz...

One out of six human beings lives in a very hidden world--the world of slums. Shot on five continents, this eye-opening film takes viewers deep inside a hidden world, at once both tragic and inspiring. Documentary award winner at 20+ film festivals.

"In the 20th century, the U.S. government's effort to contain communism resulted in several disastrous conflicts: Vietnam, Cuba, Korea. Violence in Indonesia, and then interconnected slaughters across Latin America, arguably had a bigger hand in shaping today's world, but have been widely overloo...

False economics. Threats, bribes, extortion. Debt, deception, coups, assassinations and unbridled military power. These are the tools used by the 'corporatocracy' -- a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments and rich and powerful individuals -- to ensure that they retain and ex...