Trends in global aging in the coming decades pose serious fiscal challenges to developed and developing nations unless longstanding social policies are revamped, says CFR's Michael Hodin.

A new book by Ian Morris tracks the development of the East and the West over the millennia.

Laurie A. Garrett and El'Haum Alavian discuss the challenge, for the world's richest nations, of assisting emerging economies in their transition to self-reliance in obtaining public goods, and finding solutions that guarantee equitable access to health for the entire family of nations.

This Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation report explains the rise in development assistance for health globally and provides a comprehensive picture of the amount of health funding flowing to developing countries.

This session was from the Global Health Program meeting, Financing Global Health 2010.

Adam Segal and Cherian Samuel argue that both India and the United States have a stake in an internet that is open, global, and secure.

In this issue of Food Outlook, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reports on global supply and demand balances, and warns against further supply shocks as prices continue to rise.

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Joel D. Hirst discusses Hugo Chavez's attacks against Globovision , the only independent television news station left in Venezuel.