As inhabitants of a new nation, Americans faced a particularly daunting task. Devoting much of their energy and most of their resources to survival, they had little time or money for cultural pursuits. As John Adams put it in 1780, "It is not indeed...

International development is a concept that lacks a universally accepted definition, but it is most used in a holistic and multi-disciplinary context of human development - the development of livelihoods and greater quality of life for humans. It...

1.1 The global picture Growth in the global economy remains strong. Growth has been high for a long period in the US and China and has picked up in Europe and Japan. The upturn is therefore more broadly based, which may support more...

Helping improve societies around the globe is at the heart of international development graduate programs, which are becoming a greater force in higher education to promote positive change across borders. BY ALAN DESSOFF GRADUATE PROGRAMS in international development, although not new, are taking...

Tuberculosis infects 3.5 million people and kills nearly 300,000 in the Western Pacific region each year, despite recent progress by countries to provide better health care, the World Health Organization said Monday.The region has achieved a 2005 target of detecting at least 70 percent of...

One of the world's largest slums, a filthy shantytown in western India, will be razed and replaced with free homes for Mumbai's poor in a multi-billion dollar project by a private developer, officials said Wednesday.State authorities took out advertisements Wednesday inviting Indian and foreign builders...