Lots of people talk about the need for economic growth. But when pressed, almost no one has any clue how it works. The reason? They lack an adequate story of wealth creation…

The UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals aim to save the world without transforming it.

Unlike the encyclical, the SDGs are not fresh, or paradigm shifting. They don’t offer anything that gets the blood flowing. They can’t be sold as exciting because they simply aren’t.

The UN is currently coordinating a grand manoeuver of immense complexity. In order to agree to a new generation of global development outcomes called the Sustainable Development Goals. Unfortunately, even a cursory understanding of the data shows it is little more than hype, designed to rally public support behind a...

As United Nations officials struggle to define the development priorities of the next 15 years, the UN Millennium Campaign, the World Bank, and many other organs of the development industry tell us that we are nearing the end of poverty.

Transparency International recently published their latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), laid out in an eye-catching map of the world with the least corrupt nations coded in happy yellow and the most corrupt nations smeared in stigmatizing red. The CPI defines corruption as “the misuse of public power for private...

The UN REDD program obscures the realities experienced by local communities through its representations to the public. They employ words with environmentally-friendly connotations to describe what includes environmentally-damaging activities.