How Countries Responded to COVID-19 Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have deployed drastically different responses. According to a new UN report, we’re still in the early phase of this crisis, but so far, South Korea has had...
The economic impact of COVID-19 could increase global poverty for the first time in three decades, pushing more than half a billion people – or 8 percent of humanity – into poverty, according to a new paper published last week...
The global opioid crisis is worse than we thought. Thanks to new and more precise data from India and Nigeria – two countries that are among the 10 most populous in the world – the World Drug Report 2019, published...
Bad news for Asia and the Pacific: Not a single country in the region is on track to achieve any of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, a recent UN report has warned. Although progress has been made on...
The UN and other international organizations have warned that tax systems must be strengthened to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But according to the Tax Justice Network, multinational corporations are dodging about $500 billion in taxes each year –...
Children are getting caught in the crossfire of conflict at a devastating rate, according to a new report by Save the Children and the Peace Research Institute Oslo: Five times more children than combatants are being killed in conflicts around...
GoFundMe for the Sustainable Development Goals? It’s more feasible than you may think. A new study from the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School says crowdfunding may be a viable strategy for financing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). According to...
The United Kingdom is the safest place to be a child, while Pakistan is the least safe. That’s according to a new index that ranks 40 countries on how well they’re responding to the threat of sexual abuse and exploitation...
World Bank president Jim Yong Kim is stepping down at the end January. He made that announcement on January 7th, surprising most observers for the fact that he is resigning from his post with three years left in his second...