Development

At the turn of the century, as much as 10 percent of the world's children died before they reached their fifth birthday, and one-fourth...

Games for Change, a nonprofit group, has been designing and promoting games designed to inspire gamers to change the world.

What if you woke each morning not knowing if you’d find shelter that night? That's the daily reality for more than 100 million homeless...

To help improve Vietnam's business environment, a "competitiveness" index measures the ease of doing business among Vietnam's 63 provinces.

Poverty fighter Fazle Hasan Abed of Bangladesh, founder of the largest NGO in the world, has been named winner of the World Food Prize for 2015.

By 2050, the world will need to feed an additional 2 billion people. To help, U.S. university laboratories are hard at work. In partnership with...

The first community powered by crowd-sourced energy is about to switch on. More than 200 microhouses will provide refuge to people with disabilities who...

Ukraine boasts a number of sectors for investment, there is near-universal literacy, and the government is making efforts to eliminate corruption.

Greater prosperity and more food can come from simple things. Better seeds, a little credit and a road to market will empower rural women of the world.