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Health

Without Universal Health Coverage, World Health Day Means Little To Most Of India

How far will you go to save your child or parents? To poverty and beyond, is what many thousand Indians are doing each day. The draft National Health Policy 2015 mentioned ...

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Sustainable Development

To End Global Poverty Put Science At The Heart Of Development

We want to end extreme poverty.If you’re reading this, we’re pretty sure that you do as well. You will probably already know about the enormous progress being m...

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Human Rights

Newly Disability Definition To Be Widened

The government is set to widen the definition of "disability" to bring the count of physically challenged persons in sync with the ground situation, heeding complaints that...

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Hollywood

Stars Sign Letter Urging Leaders To Tackle Poverty By Addressing Gender Inequality

Sir Elton John was one of the more than 70 celebrities who urged world leaders to tackle poverty by addressing gender inequality, adding his name to an open letter to gover...

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Sustainable Development

What A Little Land Can Do?

The poorest people in the world are those who don’t have land. In India, landlessness is a better predictor of poverty than illiteracy or belonging to castes at the b...

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Human Rights

Harnessing The Data Revolution And Improving Land Management Through Geospatial Technology

Advances in earth observation, computing power, and connectivity have tremendous potential to help governments, and us at the World Bank, support better land management, an...

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Human Rights

Time Poverty And The World's Childcare Crisis

My colleague Thalia Kidder is a feminist economist who’s been working for years to try and get the ‘care economy’ onto the development agenda. It’s ...

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Human Rights

Time Poverty And The World's Childcare Crisis

My colleague Thalia Kidder is a feminist economist who’s been working for years to try and get the ‘care economy’
onto the development agenda. It&rs...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - Salaam Women

Many of you are familiar with the question of being born female in India. But it will be nice to go through the exercise together –imagine you are a daughter in India...

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Human Rights

2.5 Billion People At Risk Of Hunger And Poverty If Land Rights Are Not Protected

Indigenous peoples and local communities protect half the world's land, but formally own just 10 percent, according to a report released today by a global alliance of NGOs....

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