Global poor to suffer worst of warming

Climate change has the potential to cause devastation to the world’s poor and could undo decades of development hard work, according to a senior executive from the World Bank.

Top thinker welcomed back

Former CEO of Universities Australia Professor Glenn Withers AO has returned to ANU as a professor of economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy.

Scoring the Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals are both too ambitious and not ambitious enough, writes TERENCE WOOD.

Carbon scheme makes Australia a world leader

Australia’s carbon tax may be a political “hot potato” but on the global stage it’s marking the country out as a leader, according to an executive of the World Bank.