They have been on hold for two years amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear weapons development.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

The development community is divided over whether non-profits should give away or sell technology and services as diverse as solar lighting, water filtration,healthcare and education.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

"And economies become more comfortable I hope over the next year or two we will be able to set the timeline for development of this FTA."

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Analyst Ali Alfoneh at the conservative American Enterprise Institute says there has been another development over the past year - the opposition has split into two differing factions.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

"I think we are recognizing that the Washington consensus on economic policy is over - that the old world has gone, that we have got to build a new consensus on economic development for the future,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

We all know that overseas development assistance allocated to agriculture dropped from 18 percent in 1978 to just over four percent in 2008, The amount of money spent by developing countries on agriculture during that same period also dropped sharply.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29