Commodity-Dependent Developing Countries Need to Boost Efforts to Diversify Their Economies
Human Wrongs Watch
Without policy change, these countries risk falling short of achieving sustainable development by 2030, UN report warns
Geneva/Rome – Without a renewed commitment to policy change, commodity-dependent developing countries (CDDCs) are by 2030 set to lag behind countries with more diverse economies in their social and economic achievements, UNCTAD and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said in a report issued on 11 December 2017.

Modern Life Styles – Symbols of Consumerism, Self-centeredness and Isolation
Human Wrongs Watch
By Dr Ravi P Bhatia*
11 Dec 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service — The world today is a complex amalgam of violence, conflicts on one side and consumerism and rich lifestyles of a section of people on the other.

**Photo: An electronics store in a shopping mall in Jakarta (2004) | Author: Jonathan McIntosh | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.