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11:51 am ET -2012 saw jobs returning to the US, health concerns improve in historic numbers, and more.
Top Global Issues (View all)
- Cover Story: Progress watch 2012: Smart phones, jobs returning to America, and war crimes trials
- Focus: In 2013, possibilities for stability from Somalia to South China Sea
- How well do you know global Christmas traditions? Take the quiz
- Global sympathy for Newtown, antipathy for US gun laws (+video)
- Global water crisis: Seen from the first Himalayan glacial trickle
- Cover Story: Global water crisis: too little, too much, or lack of a plan?
- Not just sexy Kim Jong-un: 5 times the Onion has fooled foreign media
- Baby box ban: Why the UN wants to ban the practice
- Climate change talks: What are the goals in Qatar? (+video)
- How the world is reacting to Obama's reelection
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Progress Watch
Can we protect 10 percent of the oceans? Momentum is growing.An international goal is to set aside 10 percent of coastal and marine waters as protected areas by 2020. Although much work remains to reach the goal, areas are being added at an accelerated pace.
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Progress Watch
Confounding expectations, global hunger is down (+video)Despite sustained drought and population growth, global hunger has decreased over the past two decades. Food aid is smarter and 'host' governments are focusing more on local farmers.
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Reverse brain drain: Poles circulate home and out again to Europe
In the global reverse brain drain, migrants begin to influence a frumpy, provincial Poland in everything from toilets to insurance coverage to workplace attitude.
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Cover Story
Reverse brain drain: Economic shifts lure migrants homeThe tide of brain drain – from developing countries to industrialized nations – has turned. Human capital is returning home to Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Africa, while some European professionals squeezed by the recession, turn toward developing countries for advancement.
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Reverse brain drain: China engineers incentives for “brain gain”
Chinese who found it hard to fit in at the water cooler abroad feel newly valued at home as China creates a reverse brain drain of financial incentives for native talent to return.
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Reverse brain drain: 'African Lion' economies vs West’s fast track
One Kenyan – like tens of thousands of fellow Africans in a new reverse brain drain – leaves a career in a foreign country for a sunny future back home. Developing nations are experiencing a 'brain gain' as the global recession makes their best and brightest see opportunity in places they once fled.
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Reverse brain drain pulls Brazilians home, and Europeans with them
Reverse brain drain means twofold "brain gain" for Brazil as the global recession pulls native Brazilians home and, with them, a wave of European migrants leaving their austerity stricken homelands.
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Gauging poverty from Appalachia to Africa
A Monitor correspondent, who grew up in West Virginia, discusses the poverty she's seen firsthand while working as a journalist in Africa.
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Cover Story
Below the line: Poverty in AmericaOfficial figures say 46 million Americans live in poverty. Beyond that, there's little about poverty that Americans can agree on.
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The 5 most educated countries in the world
The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development recently released its Education at a Glance 2012 report. Here are the five most educated countries in the world.
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