By Stewart Lansley

In their report, “Divided We Stand”, the OECD has called for tougher action by governments to reverse the increasingly common trend towards greater inequality. It is a timely call. Such action may be the only hope of preventing the economy from sliding into a prolonged era of slump.

By Ruth Grove-White

This week the coalition government has new cause to regret strapping itself to a pledge of reducing net migration to the “tens of thousands” per year by 2015. The latest outlook report from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) shows that even the government’s expert advisors assume this target will not be met.

By Murtaza Razvi 

When patriotism rules the minds, thinking faculties take the backseat. Patriotism, like religion, is a conviction based on a belief system which cannot be reasoned with. It’s the biggest, all-pervasive cult that entire nation states are besotted with, some to the point of no redemption — and there is no distinction between democratic and undemocratic polities whilst succumbing to patriotism.

By Mike

A study into how large dams in West Africa have affected local people has identified ways to share the benefits of future dams more equitably and create development opportunities for communities.

By Dawn 

The Samuel Johnson quote ‘Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own,’ has special significance for Pakistan. Agriculture constitutes the single largest sector of Pakistan’s economy accounting for 22 percent of GDP. It’s a source of raw material for other industries (agro-based products contributing 75% of our total export earnings) and employs nearly half of the total labor force.

By Iftikhar Firdous/Reuters

An early Saturday morning attack by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) helicopters killed at least 24 security personnel and injured 12 soldiers on a Pakistani check post in Salala, which is located in the Tehsil Bayzai area of Mohmand Agency on the Pak-Afghan border , sources said.