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World Bank Releases New World Indicators Data

Everyone knows the World Bank loves its data and for those of us who write about and follow global health and development trends we are particularly grateful for how thorough they are in continually updating and releasing data that is relevant to the stories we write and to the global health programs we cover. On Friday, the World Bank released its latest datasets about World Development Indicators. I … Continue reading World Bank Releases New World Indicators Data

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Africa, Agriculture, Blog, Reporting

Covering Agriculture, Poverty, and Hunger in Tanzania

In nine days I will be traveling to Tanzania as an International Reporting Project (IRP) Fellow to cover agriculture, poverty, and hunger.  As you may recall I also traveled to Zambia this summer to cover infectious diseases as an IRP fellow. This trip promises to be a eye-opener to me as I rarely concentrate on the subject. Typically, my concentration rests on women and girls, maternal … Continue reading Covering Agriculture, Poverty, and Hunger in Tanzania

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Blog, Maternal Health, Updates

Join Us for the “Picturing Maternal Health” Twitter Chat

This Friday, April 5, 2013, leading NGOs and Momentum 1000 partners will rally to spread awareness about the 1000-days countdown to the expiration of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in 2015. MDGs are the international development goals that were set by the United Nations and its partners in 2000 to improve the lives and health of people living in the world’s poorest countries. On Friday … Continue reading Join Us for the “Picturing Maternal Health” Twitter Chat

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Asia, Blog, Children

New Media Journalists Travel to India, Report on Child Survival

Caption: Women and Children’s Hospital in Mumbai, India: A child is pictured at Cama Hospital, a major hospital for women and children, in Mumbai, India. Photo: United Nations The International Reporting Project (IRP) has sent ten new media journalists to India to report on child survival. You may recall, the Indian Ministry of Health along with UNICEF and USAID convened the latest Child Survival Summit earlier this … Continue reading New Media Journalists Travel to India, Report on Child Survival

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Africa, Asia, Blog, Poverty, South America

Save the Children Releases Report on Post-2015 Framework for Ending Poverty

As we all know the Millennium Development Goals are set to expire in 2015. While much progress has been made globally over the past twenty years to eradicate poverty and to meet each of the individual goals there is still much to do. With the MDGs on their way out, Save the Children has devised a framework for post-2015 work to end global poverty and spur … Continue reading Save the Children Releases Report on Post-2015 Framework for Ending Poverty

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Africa, Asia, Blog, South America, Women and Girls

The Ease of Doing Business in 185 Economies, Including How Women Fare

The World Bank released its 10th annual edition of Doing Business which shows the state of, in fact, doing business in 185 economies. On its ease of doing business index it is easiest to do business in Singapore followed by Hong Kong, New Zealand, United States, Denmark, Norway, and the UK. Some African countries made doing business easier such as Zimbabwe that reduced start-up fees … Continue reading The Ease of Doing Business in 185 Economies, Including How Women Fare

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[Watch] Videos from World Bank President Jim Yong Kim

As you probably know the World Bank Group has a brand-new president, Jim Young Kim, as of July 2012. What you may not know is that the World Bank posts regular videos of Dr. Kim in various places around the world during his first international trip as president like this one from Pretoria, South Africa where Mr. Kim talks about the ingenuity of Mailtronics, a thriving … Continue reading [Watch] Videos from World Bank President Jim Yong Kim

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Blog, Children, Popular Posts, Women and Girls

Child Mortality Rates Fall in Sub-Saharan Africa

If you keep up with MDG (Millennium Development Goals) news it would seem unfathomable that a report would emerge from Sub-Saharan African that infant and child mortality has fallen within recent years. The Millennium Development Goal 4 says that child mortality should be reduced by 2/3 in the developing world  by 2015, which comes to 4.4% per year per country. In a previous post I … Continue reading Child Mortality Rates Fall in Sub-Saharan Africa

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