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A Blueprint for Alleviating Poverty: Interview with Selim Jahan
MediaGlobal’s Nicole McIntyre sits down with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Poverty Division Director Selim Jahan to find out if the G-20’s commitments will result in positive economic change for the developing world in the midst of the financial crisis.
South-South Cooperation: Demand for commodities grows in developing countries
In an exclusive interview with MediaGlobal's Adelia Saunders, Ambassador Ali Mchumo, Managing Director of the Common Fund for Commodities, discusses the need for countries dependent on raw material exports to work together to benefit from rising commodity prices and rapidly globalizing international trade.
Developing Creative Economies for Least Developed Countries
In an exclusive interview with MediaGlobal’s Adelia Saunders, Edna dos Santos-Duisenberg, Chief of the Creative Economy and Industries Programme of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), discusses the development potential of creative economies and the findings in the Creative Economy Report 2008, launched in April 2008 at UNCTAD XII in Accra, Ghana.
THE SECOND WORLD: Beginnings of a New Global Order
In an exclusive interview with MediaGlobal's Nosh Nalavala, Parag Khanna, author of "The Second World," explains the emergence of countries from least developed nation status, to what is now being termed as "the Second World."
Creating Sport Initiatives to help reach the Millennium Development Goals
In an exclusive interview with Sheana Laughlin of MediaGlobal, the Director of the United Nations New York Office of Sport for Development and Peace, Dr. Djibril Diallo discusses how sports could help alleviate poverty and aid in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
United Nations Launches Coordinated Global Initiative to Combat Avian Influenza
In an exclusive interview with MediaGlobal's Nosh Nalavala, the United Nations System Influenza Coordinator, Dr. David Nabarro calls for a global strategy to combat avian influenza and highlights the role of the United Nations.