How Countries Can Improve Women’s Access To Water

Because of water’s multidimensional role in economic development and poverty reduction, addressing the constraints that women and girls face in accessing and managing...

Sustainable Development Goal 8: Promote Inclusive Economic Growth.

This story first appeared on the blog of Corporate Citizenship, a global business consultancy specializing in sustainability and corporate responsibility. Its series of art...

How Big Is The Corporate Gender Gap?

You’ve probably heard that women tend to earn less than men in the workplace. Researchers writing for the New York Fed’s Liberty Street Economics blog took a lo...

Why Big Corporations Like Gap And eBay Are Mobilizing Against Climate Change

This week, California legislators received a pair of letters signed by dozens of corporations in support of two bills that would require the state to further reduce its gre...

What Can India Teach Us About Gender Equality?

A central driver of economic growth is the increased role of women. This comes in many forms: increased female labor force participation, reduced discrimination and wage di...

Think The World’s Getting Worse? Think Again, Says Economist

Turn on the news or listen to doom-mongers in politics and the media, and you could be forgiven for thinking the world is a more violent and unequal place than ever, but ac...

How Obama’s Getting Americans To Care About Climate Change

BARACK OBAMA HAS a way with words?for which he?s been both vilified (all talk!) and adored (so inspiring!). Hate or love, nobody can deny he?s good at communicating. Case i...

How Obama?? Getting Americans To Care About Climate Change

BARACK OBAMA HAS a way with words??or which he?? been both vilified (all talk!) and adored (so inspiring!). Hate or love, nobody can deny he?? good at communicating. Case i...

Hear The Poor Cry

A Very significant document has come out. It is a letter from Pope Francis addressed to everyone on this planet.

Pope Francis is head of the world’s largest r...