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Why is Liberia calling for a new global poverty reduction framework: shifting from aid logic to resilience investment

At the Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum held in Beijing, Liberia called on the international community to shift from short-term aid to long-term investment, reflecting the global poverty reduction agenda’s shift from project-oriented approaches to system building, from governance by averages to prioritizing vulnerable groups, and also highlighting how climate, debt, food security, and employment issues are reshaping global development cooperation.

Samuel Okafor7 min read
Emerging Regions

Kenya’s tourism industry and AI collaboration: the development logic behind digital transformation

Around the new collaboration between Kenya’s Ministry of Tourism and Google Kenya, this article analyzes how the tourism industry is shifting from a traditional foreign-exchange sector to a data-driven public governance scenario, from the perspectives of digital infrastructure, AI applications, skills training, and cultural digitization, and discusses the practical constraints faced by Global South countries in development finance, the digital divide, and ESG transformation.

Dr. Aris Thorne8 min read
Climate

When climate risk becomes an organizational governance variable: why almost every nonprofit institution is already a “climate institution”

Starting from the governance realities of the nonprofit sector, this article analyzes how climate change has shifted from an environmental issue into a composite variable of public services, social equity, disaster resilience, and development financing, and discusses the long-term impact of this shift on global development, ESG, and international cooperation.

Dr. Aris Thorne7 min read
Climate

Climate change is not just an “ecological issue”: how the shrinking of global plant habitats is reshaping development, investment, and governance

A study covering more than 67,000 vascular plant species shows that climate change is rapidly shrinking the suitable habitats of many species, with up to about 16% of species potentially losing more than 90% of their range by the end of this century. This is not only a biodiversity issue; it will also affect food security, water resources, land use, public services, and the logic of ESG investing.

Dr. Aris Thorne7 min read