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For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease. (2025)
The pandemic took the concept of universal basic income out of the hands of Silicon Valley tech bros—and brought it to the people. (2021)
As covid-19 rages, many poorer people can no longer afford enough food | The Americas Brazilians are increasingly going hungry… (2021)
Giving the homeless shelter is cheaper than dealing with the consequences of rough sleeping (2021)
As a result, the ideas of the earliest economists are being revised and improved (2020)
Finland is the only EU country where homelessness is falling. Its secret? Giving people homes as soon as they need them – unconditionally "As in... (2019)
But their chance of survival still depends on where they are born. “Two decades ago, nearly 10 million children did not live to see a 5th birthd... (2019)
5.4 million children under 5 die every year – that's 15,000 every day. Yet this is an everyday tragedy that never makes the headlines. (2019)
As the face of homelessness changes, politicians cling to limited policy ideas and quick fixes. (2019)
My heart breaks when my friends conflate the two terms: understanding the difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’ is the first step toward building a... (2019)
Has global poverty declined dramatically? That might seem like a straightforward question to answer, but it’s become the topic of fierce debate ... (2019)
More light, less clarity THOUGH SHE lives in one of the world’s poorest countries, Drocella Yandereye is a picture of upward mobility. Her small... (2019)
What can UK cities learn from Finland, where the number of rough sleepers has fallen dramatically? (2019)
Microcredit, explained: how microcredit can help the world’s poorest. Microcredit was once hailed as a solution to global poverty. Recent studie... (2019)
A recent survey asked “All things considered, do you think the world is getting better or worse, or neither getting better nor worse?”. In Sweden 1... (2019)
More égalité than you might think WHEN EMMANUEL MACRON launches his promised “great national debate” on January 15th, he hopes to show a willing... (2019)
THE LOS ANGELES regional food bank distributes 300,000 meals a month, but that, says its director, Michael Flood, is only a fraction of what the hu... (2018)
These are bleak times — but a lot of things are improving. (2014)
Fewer people are living in extreme poverty around the world, but the decline in poverty rates has slowed, raising concerns about achieving the goal... (2018)
In a tweet this morning, Amazon founder (and the world’s richest man) Jeff Bezos announced that he and his wife were creating a $2 billion fund to ... (2018)
What if everyone lived in the same street? I’m obsessed with a website called Dollar Street. Created by Factfulness co-author Anna Rosling Rönnlun... (2018)
At Our World in Data we aim to bring together the empirical data and research to show how living conditions around the world are changing. Is that ... (2018)
Homi Kharas, Kristofer Hamel, and Martin Hofer highlight two new storylines that depict what is happening to global extreme poverty. (2018)
Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere - Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (2018)
There have been incorrect reports in the media about the Finnish experimental study on a Universal Basic Income. The experiment will run until the ... (2018)
The $100 OLPC laptop was supposed to revolutionize education and close the digital divide. But in just a few years it was recognized as a failure, ... (2018)
Why Africa’s poor pay high prices - Overpriced “WE FEEL so hungry,” says Agatha Khasiala, a Kenyan housekeeper, grumbling about the price of me... (2018)
IN THE past few decades something amazing has happened. The share and the number of extremely poor people in the world (on the current definition, ... (2018)
Too often, low-income, black and Latino students end up in schools with crumbling walls, old textbooks and unqualified teachers, according to a rep... (2018)
Would a universal basic income be a "calamity"? Research suggests the opposite. "This summer, the Wall Street Journal published an article claim... (2017)
America is the richest country in the world, but it also has one of the biggest divides between rich and poor. What can a zip code reveal about ine... (2018)
Together 18 Miami leaders from 5 verticals - Education /Technology /Enterprises /City /People - shared their initiatives and projects related to th... (2018)
CAFOD Published on Aug 16, 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of Agenda 2030 Su... (2018)
Bill Gates recently read Hans Rosling's new book "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think." I... (2018)
CAFOD Published on Aug 16, 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of Agenda 2030 Su... (2018)
Marginal Revolution University Published on Feb 16, 2016 Throughout this section of the course, we’ve been trying to solve a complicated economic... (2018)
LastWeekTonight Published on Jul 13, 2014 John Oliver discusses America's growing wealth gap and why it may be a problem in the future. Connec... (2018)
The Rio you won’t see at the Olympics Watch part 1, "2016 Olympics: What Rio doesn’t want the world to see" (2018)
Marginal Revolution University Published on Feb 16, 2016 Throughout this section of the course, we’ve been trying to solve a complicated economic... (2018)
Vox, Published on Nov 14, 2014 We know how to end poverty. So why don't we? Read more about the simplest plan to end poverty, a universal basic ... (2018)
The seeds of the apparently sudden collapse of Venezuela’s once-proud oil industry were sown two decades ago. (2018)
Masters of Scale podcast, 2017: “#7 Grit Happens with Crisis Text Line's Nancy Lublin. To succeed, entrepreneurs need a good idea, timing, money, ... (2017)
The California Sunday Magazine The College Try Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But they worked a... (2017)