This year, we have crossed the midpoint on our timescale for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Adopted at the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the Millennium Development Goals set the minimum standards for combating poverty, hunger, illiteracy, gender inequalities, disease and environmental degradation in...

The food crisis that's currently shaking the planet up (in the Middle East, in Asia, and more precisely in about forty African countries) could have been foreshadowed if only we had paid more attention to the warnings of organisations such as The PAM and the FAO. It would today be inappropriate to talk about this crisis, the...

Paulo Gomes reflects on his personal transition from public to private-sector leadership with critical observations of the transformations taking place in African business and commerce. Formerly Executive Director at the World Bank, he is now President & Managing Partner of Constelor Investment Holdings, a Pan-African...

In Paris, during the 4th conference of the French speaking countries secretaries of Justice, one of the themes dealt on "Justice and Development", more precisely on the right and the regulation of Economy in the French speaking world. There was a lot of discussions about the development of new forms of criminality...

The impact and role of the emerging countries in a world governance is a burning issue. No one can ignore the fact that, for several years, new political and economic actors irrupted into the international debate, overthrowing the mutual state control system in which, up to recently, the traditional world governance was...

The president of the UN will be France, for six months, starting from July 1rst. Europe agreed to give a fresh start to the process of Barcelona that was started in 1995. It aims at committing in favour of a reinforced cooperation within the Mediterranean area. It will be presented as a UPM (Union project for the...

During the 1980s, Egypt and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) resolved to build the Bibliotheca Alexandrina with the same universal goals as the ancient one: a focal point for research, the advancement of knowledge and the open exchange of ideas. Today the Library stands as a...

Whether we like it or not, we are becoming One World. Globalization is here too stay. It is marked by mounting interdependence in all fields, economic, technological, social, cultural and ecological. A consensus is emerging to the effect that, if properly managed, globalization, can be a positive force for Mankind but,...