Having given up on world peace, here's a modest Christmas wish list for Santa Claus

Top of my list would be for Americans to stop confusing politics with morality, law with ethics. Government has an important job: to protect us in the exercise of our right...

Malaria deaths among children under five halved since turn of the century

World Health Organisation report identifies 51% drop among under-fives between 2000-12, and 45% fall across all ages

Between 2000 and 2012, malaria deaths among und...

What's Poverty Got to Do With It?

The world’s poverty benchmark is an income less than US $2 (about 300 Naira) per day and by that statistic about 50 percent of the World’s 7 billion people live...

How life is improving in India's poorest region

Many villages had no school, no health centre, no ration shop, no approach road, no post office, no telephone, no electricity, and perhaps even no convenient source of drin...

Amazon condom factory: A sustainable way to profit from Brazil's forests

Deep in the Amazon rainforest Read More

Bangalore needs Rs 80,000 crore over 5 years to sustain itself: State urban development secretary

Bangalore city needs at least Rs 80,000 crore over the next five years to be sustainable. It needs this much for infrastructure, road development, drainage and several deve...

Call to focus election on child poverty in New Zealand

Children’s Commissioner, Dr Russell Wills, wants motorists, the well-off and the elderly to take less from taxpayers so that more public funding can go into tackling ...

Challenging Patriarchy: The challenging definition of women's empowerment

“Everyone uses the word ‘empowerment,’” said the UN Foundation’s Alaka Basu at the Wilson Center on October 10. “It’s now such an ...

Greece at a Glance Policies for a Sustainable Recovery

The global economy appears to have turned the corner following the worst recession in the post-war period. However, all indications point to a slow and hesitant recovery, w...