President Obama is set to nominate Partners in Health co-founder and Dartmouth College President Jim yong-Kim as president of the World Bank. This is a pretty bold move by President Obama.
Last week’s announcement from UNICEF that we have met the Millennium Development Goal for drinking water has been met with fears that the world may think the water problem has been solved.
Big News On the Global Development Front: Unicef and the WHO announced that humanity has achieved the Millennium Development Goal of cutting half the number of people around the world who do not have access to clean water.
Last September, Curtis Jackson -- who you and I know better as 50 Cent -- visited the Horn of Africa with the World Food Program. Around that same time, he publicly committed to donating 1 billion meals to the World Food Program over five years.