Chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma account for 4% of all deaths in South Africa and poverty is the main underlying driver of these diseases, say ...

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol (PIA) — Twenty-five towns and Tagbilaran City recorded a poverty incidence of 20% or below in 2023, nearly double the 13 municipalities that achieved this rate in 2021, ...

Lomé hosts WAEMU mid-term workshop on household living conditions survey Experts review household, community infrastructure and price data collection Togo aims to complete delayed survey waves by ...

A colleague of mine at Harvard Medical School, a physician and Bioethics Fellow, asked a visiting president of a global pharmaceutical company: “What are the ethics of global pharmaceutical companies?

For Bangladesh, graduation from the LDC category is undoubtedly a historic achievement. After being included in the United ...

Past anti-poverty pledges in Nigeria failed due to corruption. This analysis outlines concrete steps for Tinubu's government to ensure true accountability.

Half of the city’s murders this year have taken place in the Bronx, despite the borough being the fourth most populace in the city, a reality DA Darcel Clark says is “as tragic as it is ...

RN mayor leads polls in French city despite looming court ruling Perpignan quadrupled drug fines under far-right mayor French ...

There are grants and govt schemes galore but keeping girls out of child marriage is still an unfinished fight in Rajasthan.

March 2026 - New global and regional data (forthcoming) reveal that women account for only 27 per cent of chief statisticians in national statistical offices (NSOs) worldwide, underscoring a ...

A Kenyan environmentalist, she began by paying women a few shillings to plant trees and went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

Drawing the poverty line at about $20 per person per day – approximately equivalent to the official U.S. poverty threshold ...