It leads the way among several countries running circles around the U.S. in infrastructure development, which all have one thing in common.
The estimate is a conservative one, based on just three regions of the developing world, and considers only people migrating within their own countries, not those seeking a new life abroad.
The incident throws an already troubled reconciliation process between the Fatah party and Hamas into deeper turmoil.
As American activist Joel Kovel wrote six years ago, "The future will be eco-socialist, because without eco-socialism there will be no future."
Missing from many conversations about the impact of global warming is an understanding of how women in particular are affected.
A fresh global economic disaster is brewing, and the authors of world financial policy don't acknowledge their role in creating it.
Among several indications of the rise of solar energy, a plane recently flew around the world using nothing but solar power.
Developing countries are continuing to struggle with the weak global economy. The bank said it expected to lend more than $150 billion in the four years from 2013 -- a period when global economic activity repeatedly failed to match expectations.
During President Obama's visit, the American press has focused on poverty, terrorism and other ills in the African country. But Ethiopia is getting something right that we are getting badly wrong.
Unemployment rates of 43 percent for Gaza's general population and 60 percent for young people suggest a bleak future for Israel as well as Gaza.
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