Women face a number of socio-economic challenges that make it harder for them to access higher education.
Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Economics to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer (from left to right on the screen) during a press conference held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on 14 October 2019.
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Amid plans to create special sports divisions for high-poverty schools, coaches at such schools explain how they produce championship-winning teams despite having fewer resources.
Alberto Fernández, Argentina’s new president.
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Zuhumnan Dapel, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics
If trends continue, 87% of the world’s poorest people will live in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030.
Argentina’s president-elect, Alberto Fernández (right), with his running mate, former president and first lady Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
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Argentina has voted for change. Alberto Fernández, a 60-year-old lawyer, defeated President Mauricio Macri with a campaign emphasizing economic recovery, social inclusion and national unity.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau delivers his speech in Montreal, on October 22, 2019.
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The election results could mean a national pharmacare program will happen, albeit slowly. Canadians can also expect more safe injection sites and money invested in the opioid crisis.
Miners working at Bersham Colliery near Wrexham in Wales, 1960.
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People who moved away from Britain’s coal-mining areas have genetic profiles linked to higher educational attainment and better health than those who stayed.
Prodded by Michelle Obama and other government leaders, Walmart and other major US retailers vowed to build hundreds of stores in food deserts. What happened?
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, left, with his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari in late August in Japan.
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The effects of climate change will disproportionately affect the world’s poorest, risking the lives and health of millions of people located mainly in the Global South.
‘#Unapologetic’ the new campaign by Matell wants to portray Barbie as a doll telling women and girls they can be anything they want with a focus on entrepreneurship.
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Elisabeth Pruegl, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
Contradictions abound as companies seek to style themselves as advancing gender equality while at the same time marketing sexist products or thriving on sexist employment practices.
Mozambique uses income as a measure of poverty. On this basis, poverty has declined over the past two decades.
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Income is a useful measure for tracking economic progress over time. But a broader lens is needed to understand the relational and often political ways in which poverty emerges and is reproduced.
Slum houses in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta.
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People’s acceptance of poverty is the biggest challenge to eradicating poverty in Yogyakarta and Banten, both on Indonesia’s most populated Java island.
Families can use their EITC to improve their housing.
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The Earned Income Tax Credit was established in 1975 to reduce payroll taxes and help with rising prices for low-income families. Today, it could help poor families with housing.