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9 Challenges facing South Africa - Diagnostic Report - National Planning Commission (NPC)

Last Updated on 14 December 2011

The results of the National Planning Commission, the 9 key challenges facing South Africa today.

Eliminating Poverty, 2015

Last Updated on 14 December 2011

Provoke Radio produced a segment on eliminating poverty by the year 2015. Listen to what countries around the world plan to do and are doing to make our world a better place.

Urban Poverty

Last Updated on 14 December 2011

This program takes viewers on a field trip with Lakshman Yapa, a Penn State professor who teaches a unique class that searches for innovative ways to begin eradicating urban poverty.

David Satterthwaite on the urban poor

Last Updated on 14 December 2011

Development planner specialising in integrating environmental health and resource management into urban plans and policies. Works with the Human Settlements Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). Advises many international agencies on urban policy; Editor of the international journal Environment and Urbanization and co-author of several Earthscan books including Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World: Local Solutions for Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America (with Jorge E. Hardoy & Diana Mitlin), Earthscan, 2000.

Social media advantage

Last Updated on 14 December 2011

Clay Shirky talks about how Twitter, Facebook and other social media services bring advantage to users. Watch now.

Harnessing Urbanization for Growth and Poverty Alleviation

Last Updated on 14 December 2011

The World Bank is putting forth its new Urban and Local Government Strategy at a critical time. For the first time in history, more than half the world’s people live in cities. Over 90 percent of urban growth is occurring in the developing world, adding an estimated 70 million new residents to urban areas each year. The new Strategy advocates a new paradigm aimed at harnessing urbanization for growth and poverty reduction.

Wangari Maathai: Money Alone Won't Help Africa

Last Updated on 14 December 2011

Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai argues that well-intentioned aid to Africa may have unexpected negative consequences. She draws from Sharon Stone's pledge to buy anti-malaria bed nets in Tanzania to explain why money alone will not solve Africa's problems.

2010 Gender Studies Symposium: Gender in the Future

Last Updated on 14 December 2011

Students, faculty members, and featured guests lead three days of discussions on topics including how biology influences identity and how science shapes parenthood.