The fall season is the time of year filled with caramel apples, trick-or-treating, corn mazes and pumpkin carving. But beyond the excitement of children at Old McDonald’s pumpkin patch, what is the worth of a pumpkin? In Uganda, the pumpkin is a source of income that has helped boost the economy. According to ONE, “Pumpkins […]
Favored by both roadside barbecue stands and upscale restaurants throughout Ghana, the nutritious and low-fat guinea fowl represents a lucrative business for smallholder farmers who want a low-maintenance livestock to raise. The World Bank’s West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP) is helping guinea fowl farmers in Northern Ghana scale up operations. Its initial investment in […]
Chris Murray, a professor of global health at the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, wanted to understand one simple question, “Why do people get sick and die?” To get the answer, he created a comprehensive database known as the Global Burden of Disease (GBD). The tool is incredibly useful to policymakers […]
Commissioner Mimica of EU Aid began a voyage to Peru earlier this month on Oct. 9 to announce a support package for the development and health of young adults and children. The support package for Peru is intended to accelerate the plans of the National Development and Social Inclusion Strategy, which aims to help five […]
For the past 43 years, a lifesaving treatment for malaria, perfected by pharmacologist Tu YouYou, has received little recognition until winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday, Oct. 5. This long-known remedy has already demonstrated its efficacy through its use in southern Asia; however, the issue still remains as a staggering 90 […]
In 2013, 28 million Indonesians lived below the poverty line. Impoverished families throughout the nation were often too poor to afford healthcare and education for their children, leading to illness and injury that trapped them in generational poverty. In an effort to break this generational cycle, the World Bank, in combination with the Ministry of […]
In rural Egypt, the freshwater of the Nile River is a life-giving resource and the main supplier of drinking water; but, due to pollution from human and animal waste, the river is also deadly. Annually, 5 percent of Egyptian deaths are the result of water contamination and lack of sanitation, according to the World Health […]
With support from the World Bank Group, the governments of Kenya and South Sudan, as well as other stakeholders, recently inaugurated a new project that will upgrade a critical trade route connecting the two countries. The updated route will make trade easier between the two countries, improve livelihoods for people living in the northwest region […]
A lack of access to adequate health care is often a risk factor or symptom of poverty, as the inability to prevent or treat illnesses in a timely, affordable manner can devastate communities. Following the aftermath of the Ebola crisis, USAID, the Clinton Global Initiative and other organizations have teamed up to create the Aspen […]
Extreme poverty and poor health conditions are inextricably linked. According to the World Health Organization, about 1.2 billion people worldwide are currently living on less than $1 a day, which places them in the extreme poverty category. This is why it is important to tackle the causes of poor health, which will in turn help […]
