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Uzbekistan’s Progress in Eradicating Hunger
This year, the Global Hunger Index (GHI) ranks Uzbekistan at 5.7 percent for its undernourished population from 2011 to 2013. More than 800 million people suffer from hunger and the GHI examines 120 of the low-income countries that account for the vast majority of global undernourishment. In the last 14 years, Uzbekistan has shown a […]
Japan’s Economy Failing
Japan is currently facing a dour economic situation comparable to 2011 when a tsunami struck Japan’s eastern coast. Following the tsunami, Japan’s economy started to shrink to 6.9 percent and is now down to its lowest rate since the environmental disaster. Economists attribute Japan’s most recent third-quarter recession to lack of investment in housing in […]
Combatting Malnutrition in Bolivia
Malnutrition is devastating Bolivia, with over 75 percent of households lacking access to basic food items. Conditions are much worse in the indigenous and rural communities, especially among children and pregnant women. Almost a quarter of Bolivian children suffer from hunger, while one in three children under the age of five suffers from stunting — […]
Women’s Empowerment Program in Afghanistan
Often in the news for its ongoing bloody conflict, Afghanistan has now made headlines for a much different reason. In early November, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) invested $216 million in developing Promote, a program that focuses on the training, promotion and education of over 75,000 Afghan girls that will lead to […]
G20 Leaders Tackle Gender Employment Gap
At the G20 Summit 2014, leaders have agreed to tackle the persisting gender employment gap in their respective countries. The final agreement is to decrease the gap by 25 percent by 2025. The gender employment gap varies from region to region. Developed regions generally have a lower gap, while developing regions have a higher gap. Currently […]
Compassion in Community Service
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama made a recent visit to Princeton University to discuss the second half of the school’s informal motto “…in the service of all nations” a motto coined by former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. During the Dalai Lama’s talk, he centered on the idea that there is a universal need for compassion. […]
Girl Rising: A Campaign to Educate Our Girls
Breaking the cycle of poverty and creating the cycle of education, empowerment and uplifting out of poverty. “Girl Rising,” a feature-length documentary centers on these ideas, shining light on the importance of educating our girls around the world. Millions of girls across the globe are seen useful for one thing: reproduction. Girl Rising focuses on educating girls […]
Encouraging Empathy Through Education
The subject matter is not science or history, but human empathy. The class is conducted by an adult teacher who is assisted by a young infant. The teacher helps the students process the growth of the child, among other experiences, in order to establish a greater sense and understanding of empathy. Children between the ages […]
Poverty in Colombia: Stratification, Urbanization Aid
Poverty in Colombia remains an issue but progress has been made. In the 1980s, the capital city of Colombia, Bogota, started to implement a program of economic stratification of urban populations. The city ranked populations from one to six, one being the most poor and six being the wealthiest. Essentially, the stratification was supposed to […]
