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The top one percent now control half of the world’s wealth. To make it into this elite group, an individual needs to have a...
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New Nobel economics laureate Angus Deaton is an optimist about economic progress but his theory that poor countries’ development could be accelerated by cutting...
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Extreme poverty will this year fall to less than 10 percent of the global population for the first time, although there is still “great...
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She used to be a hairdresser with a mortgage on a spacious apartment in Porto, Portugal’s second-largest city and the birthplace of port wine....
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Some of the biggest names in music and politics from Beyonce to European prime ministers rallied in a concert aimed at mobilizing action to...
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates on Saturday threw their weight and resources behind the goal of bringing Internet access to...
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World leaders are launching an ambitious drive to transform the planet by 2030 with the adoption on Friday of new UN goals to wipe...
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World leaders will adopt at a UN summit opening Friday an ambitious set of global goals to end extreme poverty by 2030, promote health...
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Pope Francis abandoned his prepared speech Sunday at an evening prayer service in Havana to urge the clergy to embrace poverty and never forget...
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Nearly three million Haitian children are returning to school Monday to face an educational system rife with exclusion and failure. But one minister is...