Weekly Development Policy News

Click here (opens Google Reader) to access my weekly selection of mainstream news articles covering rich world policies and practices that affect poor people in developing countries.Last week's development news covered topics across the board from the challenges of an increasingly globalized economy to the threat climate change poses to developing countries.Sample articles:U.S. and Global Economies Slipping in Unison (New York Times: 8/23/08)It seems increasingly clear that the economic woes of the U.S. and other rich countries are impacting economic growth in developing countries. The IMF recently adjusted its global economic growth predictions to 4.1 percent for this year, down from 5 percent in 2007.Extreme Heat A Threat To World's Poor (National Public Radio: 8/18/08)A recent study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters found that extreme temperature caused by climate change will increase 2 or 3 times faster than average temperatures. These extreme temperature pose a threat to people and crops, but the heat will affect poor people the most because they often don’t have the luxury of retreating into air conditioning.Read all the articles from this week (opens Google Reader)