Jagdish Bhagwati examines the current feud in Bangladesh between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Mohammed Yunus, the founder of the microloan-making Grameen Bank, and hopes the affair will pave the way to liberal reforms that will transform the Bangladeshi economy.

Homi Kharas argues that global food inflation is a result of increasing oil prices and a lack of sustained agricultural investment, not speculators or inept governments.

Bryan Walsh argues that a combination of bad weather, economic growth, and biofuel production created record high food prices.

Robert Walker discusses how the future leader of Egypt will face the daunting task of feeding a country heavily reliant on food subsidies.

Olivier De Schutter discusses what the G20 should do to prepare the world for food crises.

With global food prices again soaring to record levels, experts say policies are needed to bolster agriculture production and reduce trade barriers, particularly by the United States.

In Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi laments that a new Florida foreclosure court has emerged merely as "a super-high-speed housing court with a specific mandate to rubber-stamp legally dicey foreclosures."

This New York Times article by Robert H. Frank, an economics professor at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, chronicles the growth of inequality since the mid-1970's and examines the social costs corresponding to this increse in income disparity.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the rise of raisin production in Afghanistan.

Isobel Coleman and Mary Ellen Iskenderian discuss several commitments aimed at women and girls from the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted this document on September 17, 2010 following the High-level Plenary Meeting of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals.

This report by Amnesty International compiles interviews from North Koreans documenting widespread malnutrition-induced illness and lack of health care, both due to poor government policies.

Joshua Kurlantzick argues that Thailand is merely one example in the developing world of a struggle for political freedom creating divisions between the middle classes and the poor.

The $9.9 billion pledged toward Haitian reconstruction at last week's donors' conference will be ineffective without insisting that funding for housing and jobs be wedded to overall goals for Haitian political and economic stability, says CFR expert Kara McDonald.

Andrew Witty, Chief Executive Officer of Glaxosmithkline, speaks about innovative and economically sustainable new ways to ensure pharmaceutical access to populations in the developing world. This meeting is part of the CEO speaker series which aims to educate the CFR membership on the private sector's important role in the policy debate by engaging the global business community's top leadership. Members benefit from hearing CEOs' perspectives as well as interacting with them in an informal setting; in turn, CEOs have the opportunity to highlight the work of their organization and strengthen their relationship with CFR.

Haiti's earthquake created a need for a tremendous short-term relief effort but also long-term reconstruction that could take decades and cost billions, says former Peace Corps director Mark L. Schneider.