The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

Tax the rich. End the wars. Break the power of lobbies in Washington. These are the demands of Occupy Wall Street. They are very important. The US corporations dominate Washington. The big oil companies, Wall Street banks and the military-industrial complex - they rule this country and their influence and power has to be broken.

It's not an accident that the U.S. ranks lowest of all major donor countries in the world - that is the share of our income that goes to development aid. Americans will ask whether, because were so generous privately, that makes up the difference. But it doesn't. We still rank far below other countries.

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.

Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development