Development aid money is used to build schools, connect villages to the electricity grid and expand health care in poorer countries. A detailed and up-to-date overview of development aid projects is important to ensure that ...
Environment
Apr 13, 2022
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Proponents of clean energy and thinks tanks have long said it's possible to reduce emissions and keep an economy growing. Now the latest report from the world's top climate scientists says 18 countries have done just that, ...
Environment
Apr 6, 2022
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If the world acts now, we can avoid the worst outcomes of climate change without any significant effect on standards of living. That's a key message from the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Environment
Apr 6, 2022
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A payment on results approach to delivering education aid, which is championed by international institutions including the World Bank, is in danger of backfiring in some of the countries it aims to help, researchers believe.
Education
Mar 30, 2022
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Can humanity curb spending that harms the world's biodiversity and instead focus funding on protecting it?
Ecology
Mar 27, 2022
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The chief of the United Nations announced a project Wednesday to put every person on Earth in range of early weather-warning systems within five years as natural disasters have grown more powerful and frequent due to climate ...
Environment
Mar 23, 2022
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The exclusion of women in the digital world is hurting agricultural productivity in low- and middle- income countries, according to global technology experts.
Agriculture
Mar 21, 2022
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Innovations such as Web3, the third generation of the internet, and easy-to-use video-based technologies in local languages have the potential to drive change in agriculture in developing countries, say technology advocates.
Biotechnology
Mar 18, 2022
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A new paper by King's researchers finds that the recent decline in global income inequality could start to reverse within the next decade and this inequality "boomerang" would have happened even without a pandemic, thanks ...
Economics & Business
Mar 16, 2022
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The African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP) published a position paper in the journal Nature highlighting the goals, priorities, and roadmap of the impressive Africa-led effort to sequence the genomes of plants, animals, fungi, ...
Ecology
Mar 15, 2022
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