Global Envision | The Confluence of Global Markets and Poverty Alleviation

Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bangladeshboat/2043454833/">BBC World Service (flickr)</a>

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Will Climate Funds Weather the Economic Storm?

Recently, decades of climate change warnings seem to have gained traction in political circles. Long-overdue conversation about the environment is finally underway; but is political will enough to enact environmental legislation in the face of a full-fledged economic crisis?

"Recesson commuter special." Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/3105800902/">Ed Yourdon (flickr)</a>

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Good Business Despite Bad Times

Despite the gloom-and-doom media coverage of the recession, certain industries are still doing well or even thriving.

The U.S. Navy comes to the assistance of a Taiwanese-flagged fishing trawler been seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/opendemocracy/3055910885/">Open Democracy (flickr)</a>

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Good News (By Somalia's Standards)

After 18 years of civil war, some good news is finally coming from Somalia. The recent election of Sharif Ahmed, a moderate Islamist, as Somalia’s new president brings the country a chance for peace and stability.

Schools are feeling the pressure to help the growing number of homeless students. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldohioschools/2596865738/">oldohioschools (flickr)</a>

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Schools Struggle to Help Homeless Students

As families across the U.S. face job losses and foreclosures, there's new pressure on schools to serve a rapidly-growing homeless student population.

Assembly line in a California auto-manufacturing plant. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/canadagood/3057618180/">Gregory Melle (flickr)</a>

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Mapping the Unemployment Tide

Just how deeply is the recession carving its way through the U.S. — and who's getting hit the hardest?

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A Maldives Makeunder

Need a lightly-used yacht in good condition? Check out the one that the president of Maldives is trying to sell on eBay.

Police in Reykjavik, Iceland after a violent protest turned into a riot on January 20. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/finnurmalmquist/3215651009/">finnur.malmquist (flickr)</a>

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Economic Crisis Fueling Social Unrest

It’s a lot worse than just about everyone thought. By some estimates, the economic crisis could cost 50 million jobs worldwide.

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What can you learn from a balance sheet?

Bank balance sheets.

To the average person they are complicated, and frankly, pretty boring. But understanding bank balance sheets is extremely helpful when trying to make sense of the financial crisis.

This pharmacy at the Evangel Hospital in Jos, Nigeria could be one of the beneficiaries of cheaper drugs and better facilities from GSK. Photo:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blyth/1439256349/"> MikeBlyth (flickr)</a>

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Changing the Way They Do Business

Pharmaceutical companies are often seen as villains for making life-saving drugs so expensive the poor can't afford them. But what if a new CEO was making drugs more affordable and sharing secrets that would lower profits but result in more cures?

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The Cost of Independence

Has Kosovo's first year of independence truly been "totally successful," as Prime Minister Hasim Thaci asserts?

Food banks are having trouble meeting growing demand. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/steverhode/3288419734/">Steve Rhode (flickr)</a>

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Food Banks to the Rescue

Many people visiting their local food bank these days have never been there before, according to a recent story in the New York Times.

Slum life might not be a dead-end for kids in Dharavi, India. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lecercle/289354344/sizes/m/">lecercle (flickr)</a>

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Slum Life: Destitution or Dynamism?

Even before it cashed in on eight Oscars, Slumdog Millionaire had sparked a global conversation around the film's depiction of slum life in India.

Global Citizen Corps leaders host a fundraiser for World AIDS Day. Photo: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/21825274@N08/2104226078/">jessicaphansen (flickr)</a>

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Join the Fight Against Global Poverty

On last year's World AIDS Day, Sam held an afterschool open-mic event to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS. Rachel got 200 people to sign a letter asking for more government attention on AIDS — and sent it to Barack Obama.

Despite rising unemployment, average hourly wages went up 4 percent in the past year. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesyu/13042995/">James Yu (flickr)</a>

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Rising Wages Amid the Global Recssion

It's tough finding a job in this economy. There have already been 3.6 million job losses since the start of the recession.

A child running through the streets of his favela. Photo: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/beija-flor/71548377/">carf (flickr)</a>

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A War in the City of God

Brazil's fight to eliminate the drug trade in its urban slums has been violent and expensive.

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