With the World Bank raising its poverty line to $3 a day, the extreme poverty rate for India falls to 5.3% in 2022-23 from 27 ...

Many countries face escalating debt burdens, declining investments, decreasing international aid and increasing trade ...

Nigeria ranks 61st globally and first in Africa in WEF’s 2025 Energy Transition Index, climbing 48 positions since 2024.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is a United Nations (UN) agency focused on ending poverty, reducing ...

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranks of countries around the world, based on how corrupt their public sectors are perceived to be. The results are given on a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is ...

When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate, but authors of a new study say a different ...

Notwithstanding the BJP-led NDA government claiming various achievements, a detailed analysis reveals that development has primarily benefited the upper echelons of society and the middle class. The ...

Let's parole more of our prison inmates. Oklahoma has about 23,000 inmates in custody. Prior to 1988 (because of the Willie Horton political ad), there were very few prisoners who ...

The End Learning Poverty for All in Africa (ELPAf) campaign was officially launched in Malawi on 20 June 2025. Malawi becomes the second country after Zambia to launch the campaign that seeks to ...

This brief is based on an extensive analysis of how human rights treaty bodies have engaged with individual states’ ...

Columbia Climate School identifies 65 'Red Zone' nations across four separate climate scenarios. 43 nations in Sub-Saharan Africa, eight in ...