Sitting on a wooden bench in a remote village in Rwanda, a 47-year-old woman named Esther, a mother of three, explains how she’ll spend more than 850,000 Rwandan francs. It’s a…
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Recently, Surjit Bhalla took me to task for (supposedly) using female labor force participation (FLFP) as an indicator of women’s status. He argues that FLFP measurement reflects cross-national differences in definitions of…
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President Joe Biden calls climate change “the existential crisis of our time” and has taken steps to curb it that match those words. They include returning the U.S. to the…
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According to The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out four years of progress on poverty eradication and pushed 93 million people into extreme poverty. It also disrupted…
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An international team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Adelaide has revealed that rates of future warming threaten marine life in more than 70 percent of the…
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Click here for more.On February 4, 2020, the World Health Organization released its first Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan for the novel coronavirus. The document details elaborate guidelines for how governments should prepare domestically and…
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Click here for more.With a mission to better the lives of children in communities struggling against malnourishment, water scarcity, disease and many other crises, World Vision International has a global presence spanning multiple continents. Providing…
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Fifty years ago, U.S. scientists launched a satellite that dramatically changed how we see the world. It captured images of Earth’s surface in minute detail, showing how wildfires burned landscapes,…
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Heat kills more people than any other extreme weather event, and deadly heat waves are getting longer and hotter as the climate warms. his summer, huge swaths of the US…
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The COVID-19 vaccines affected people’s periods, especially for those who don’t typically have them due to long-acting contraceptives, gender-affirming hormone treatments, or menopause, a new study shows. Researchers found that…
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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors published its second biennial “Global Trends and Strategic Time Horizons in Philanthropy” report. This is the only global survey of philanthropy of its kind. In an analysis of…
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Click here for more.“By 2050, as many as one billion people could be displaced by a combination of climate change impacts, extreme events, and environmental degradation, thus raising critical concerns about finding appropriate…