Childbirth needn’t be this deadly

What's the best way for the United Nations to help the developing world? Right now, the organisation is in the process of setting its global development agenda for the next 15 years - and the most important thing to do is to set goals which it can actually achieve, and to work out what the best way to spend its money is. Economics may well show the way.

World leaders gathering in New York for the un’s Sustainable Development Goals (sdg) Summit next week will be faced with the entirely predictable failure of their own grand promises.

Starting in the 1990s, at the end of the Cold War, climate change became a fixation for rich-country politicians and elites.