The 1982 UN Law of the Sea was the largest ever annexation of our planet and our ocean. In one stroke, one-third of our planet was formally designated as 'exclusive economic zones', givin...

Nishan Degnarain 和 Greg Stone 2017年10月16日

工作与未来

Let's push the case for decent work. The economy can afford it

This year marks the 10th World Day for Decent Work on October 7. A day when working people and their unions, backed by community groups, NGOs, faith groups and others, push the case for d...

Sharan Burrow 2017年10月05日

经济增长

Here's why gender equality is taking so long

The World Economic Forum estimates gender parity globally may now be over 170 years away. Previously they estimated an 80-year time, then it was 120 years. It keeps slowing down. The Foru...

Laura Liswood 2017年09月20日

第四次工业革命

There's a dark secret powering your smartphone

As I stood in New York’s Penn Station on Sunday, commuters in suits and tourists wearing I Love New York T-shirts waited for their trains to Boston, Washington DC and beyond. But looking ...

Mark Viso 2017年09月19日

自然与生物多样性

Why we need collaboration to save the world’s forests

Almost three years after its adoption, the New York Declaration on Forests remains a landmark moment in the global fight to eliminate deforestation.

Kavita Prakash-Mani 和 Jeff Seabright 2017年09月19日

教育与技能

7 charts that show gender inequality around the world

The late data wiz and edutainer Hans Rosling once said: “My interest is not data, it’s the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. The idea is to go from numbers to i...

Medium 2017年08月31日

公民社会

Four dangerous assumptions about human trafficking

Human trafficking is subject to complicated legal definitions, but the essence of this crime is straightforward: a person who is trapped in a situation of economic exploitation from which...

Anne Gallagher 2017年08月16日

经济增长

How one transgender boxer is fighting to change attitudes in Thailand

Clad in a pink tank top and shorts, her face made up with rouge and red lipstick, transgender Muay Thai fighter Nong Rose Baan Charoensuk is a formidable opponent.

Athit Perawongmetha · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 2017年08月04日

A glimpse into the future of migration

What are the current challenges facing the phenomenon of global migration? How has the debate around migration changed in the last 10 years and how will it continue to develop over the ne...

Rigas Hadzilacos、Khalid Koser、Ratna Omidvar 以及 Yasmina Filali 2017年08月02日

深度地理

How China's high-tech boom can help global health

Earlier this year at the World Economic Forum, President Xi Jinping delivered a hearty defence of globalisation. To anyone paying attention during the last several decades this should hav...

Seth Berkley 和 Bernhard Schwartländer 2017年06月28日

What does the Fourth Industrial Revolution mean for migration?

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is unfolding at a time when human mobility is increasing and, in many instances, becoming more precarious. Last year, the world saw 250 million internatio...

Richard Eldridge、Khalid Koser、Mariah Levin 以及 Sanjiv Rai 2017年06月28日

经济增长

3 ways the world's fastest growing economies can close the infrastructure gap

How much does it cost to power the world’s fastest growing economies?

John Hewko 2017年06月25日

第四次工业革命

Towards a human-centered model of economic growth

Based on GDP and other measures of well-being, humanity has never been better off. The number of people living in absolute poverty has fallen four-fold since 1980. Fewer people die today ...

Nicholas Davis 和 Richard Samans 2017年06月22日

全球合作

When it comes to world leaders, West isn't necessarily best

Have you ever wondered why the president of the World Bank always seems to be an American? Remarkably, since its foundation in 1946, every single World Bank head has been a US citizen. Ho...

2017年06月21日