Programs to keep young women in school across the developing world have become widespread. Education is key to improving their quality of life, but keeping them in school is a significant challenge.
This paper presents a new demographic profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those living on less than $1.90 and between $1.90 and $3.10 per day in 2013, based on household survey data fr
A human-centered design thinking approach has been applied to a course at the MIT D-Lab on creating low-cost prosthetic and assistive devices for the developing world.
Global sustainability problems pose serious challenges for humanity. In handling these problems education for sustainable development (ESD) is seen as important.
In the past 50 years, significant progress in women's equality has been made worldwide.
Background West Africa has the highest proportion of married adolescents, and the highest adolescent childbirth rate and maternal death rate in sub-Saharan Africa.
With over 700 million illiterate adults worldwide, governments in many developing countries have implemented adult literacy programs.
Existing evidence on the impacts of parental education on child nutrition is plagued by both internal and external validity concerns.
Objectives malaria causes complications during 80% of all pregnancies in Uganda.
