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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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September 24, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
Is the International Response to Ebola Enough?
The Centers for Disease Control has modeled the possible spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia. (It did not address Ebola in Guinea.) Based on its computer models, it concludes that the range o…
July 17, 2017
Gender
Women Around the World: This Week
Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post, covering July 8 to July 17, was compiled with supp…
July 2, 2015
Emerging Markets
This Week in Markets and Democracy: Cost of Tax Evasion, Curbing Corruption, and Labor Rights
This is a post of a new series on the Development Channel,“This Week in Markets and Democracy.” Each Friday, CFR’s Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Program will highlight the week’s noteworthy e…
August 26, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
Ebola in the Congo
The health minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Felix Kabange Numbi, has announced an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the remote Equateur province. Two cases have been confirmed by …
January 9, 2019
Americas
Latin America Needs to Fix Its Education Deficit
Investing more in human capital is the region’s best hope to escape the middle-income trap.
