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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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May 20, 2014
Afghanistan
Disrupting Poverty: The Search for Innovative Solutions
Following the release of her report on the status of women in Afghanistan, Catherine Powell moderates a discussion with Open Society Foundations' Rachel Reid and the U.S. Department of Defense's Davi…
March 14, 2006
Global
Global Poverty: A Conversation with Jeffrey D. Sachs
As director of the Earth Institute and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Jeffrey Sachs is renowned for his work toward solving some of the world’s most difficult economi…
November 22, 2013
Global
Are Cash Transfers the Best Way to Alleviate Global Poverty?
Noted development experts Paul Niehaus, assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego, and president of GiveDirectly, a nonprofit organization that makes unconditional cash grants di…
April 1, 2014
Global
World Bank Announces Increased Lending to Support Goal of Ending Extreme Poverty
One year into the World Bank's campaign to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030, Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, joins CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera to discuss the progress that has been mad…
April 1, 2014
Global
World Bank Announces Increased Lending to Support Goal of Ending Extreme Poverty
One year into the World Bank's campaign to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030, Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, joins CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera to discuss the progress that has been mad…