Within our lifetimes, the world could be free of widespread, extreme poverty, replaced instead with shared prosperity and environmental and fiscal balance. That was the vision World Bank President Jim Yong Kim outlined at his first…
Worldwide, one out of every five people lacks access to modern electricity. Affordability, quality of service, and social and environmental impacts…
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p>Fourteen Latin American and Caribbean countries adopted an ambitious Plan of Action to improve access rights in the region, including access to information, public participation, and access to justice.
- Access Initiative
- access to information
- access to justice
- Argentina
- Bahamas
- belize
- brazil
- caribbean
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- equity
- freedom of information
- governance
- Governance + Access
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- latin america
- Mexico
- panama
- paraguay
- peru
- Principle 10
- south america
- st lucia
- The Access Initiative (TAI)
- tobago
- Venezuela
This post originally appeared on the Climate Development and Knowledge Network’s (CDKN) website.
Having recently…
The World Bank’s annual spring meetings take place this week in Washington, D.C….
The world is on track to become a very different place in the next two decades. Per capita income levels are rising, the global middle class is expanding, and the population is set to hit 8.3 billion people by 2030. At the same time, urbanization…
This post originally appeared on Bloomberg.com.
As we enter 2013, there are signs of growth and economic…
- Africa
- Business and Climate
- China
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- Climate Change
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- Coming Soon: Global Forest Watch 2.0
- energy
- Energy Security and Climate Change
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- People &amp; Ecosystems
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- shale gas
- The Access Initiative (TAI)
- U.S. Climate Action
- United States
- us policy
This year has been one of those worst-of-years and best-of-years. In its failures, there are signs of hope.
An unprecedented stream of…
From 2001 to 2011, Brazil’s per capita GDP more than tripled. At the heart of this…
This post was co-written with Gilbert Sendugwa, Coordinator and Head of Secretariat for the Africa Freedom of Information Centre…
