My last post was about China and so I can keep the Chinese “internet police” in a job, today’s post is also about China and its creation of a new slave empire....

This is a very broad and brief overview of the past, present, and possible future of the South Asian city. It raises a number of points each of which can be discussed...

THE adage goes, ‘train a woman and you have trained a nation’. This is philosophy to development, right from the household. Many times it eludes society to the...

Children in Zimbabwe are eating rats and inedible roots riddled with toxic parasites to stave off hunger because of chronic food shortages, an aid agency said on...

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Some time ago I wrote about the social apartheid in Brazil, a term that is used to refer to the social inequality in Brazilian cities. Houses of USD 1 million in a side...

A food crisis and economic turmoil are threatening to scuttle U.N. goals to halve extreme poverty around the world by 2015, according to an EU report released Friday.

*Note: Apologies to the lyricists of the Ricky Martin single, “Livin’ La Vida Loca” whose title I partially ripped off for this essay. Awhile after clearing the...

I’ve decided to take the plunge. I’m going where no man, with exception to a few legally insane, before me has ever gone. I’ve decided to head to...

Brazil will use revenue from newly discovered offshore oil fields to eradicate poverty, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vowed.

Cooking and its storage can be a complex matter especially in the developing world with grave ramifications for public health and fitness. To solve this intricate...

In criticism aimed primarily at the United States, Japan and the European Union, a U.N. report said Thursday that rich nations haven’t delivered on promises to...

Poverty in India is reducing but it is still a major issue. Rural Indians depend on unpredictable agriculture incomes, while urban Indians rely on jobs that are, at...

NEW DELHI: India is home to roughly one-third of all poor people in the world. It also has a higher proportion of its population living on less than $2 per day than...

The Census Bureau reports that the number of people lacking health insurance dropped by more than 1 million in 2007, the first annual decline since the Bush...

The Census Bureau on Tuesday reports new numbers on poverty, income and health insurance _ an annual snapshot of the economic well-being of American households.

Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama star in a new television ad that highlights successes in helping the world’s poor and encourages people to do more this election...

The American flag landed on the scorer’s table, launched by a family member with exceptional aim. Henry Cejudo grabbed it from his coach and draped it around his...

Unfortunately, Brazil’s government has not made similar progress in the fight against maternal mortality.

I’m a member of ONE, a campaign that raises awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease and more in the world’s poorest countries. One of the...