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The Side Effect Of That New Malaria Drug? American Jobs
The researchers found that between 2007 and 2015, the U.S. government invested $14 billion in global health research and development. And that created 200,000 new American jobs and returned $33 billion to the U.S. economy.
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- Health Care
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How open data can help the Global South, from disaster relief to voter turnout
In Africa, Latin America, Asia and beyond, hopes are high that access to data can help developing economies by increasing transparency, fostering sustainable development, building climate resiliency and the like.
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- Technology
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- data, global development
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Paying poor landowners not to cut trees a cheap way to save forests
Ugandan villagers paid $28 a year not to cut trees. Study finds that's cheaper than mitigating climate change.
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- Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Global value chains provide new opportunities to developing countries
Global value chains provide opportunities for developing countries to diversify their exports and intensify their integration into the global economy. This is one of the key findings of the “Global Value Chain Development Report” recently published by the World Trade Organization (WTO), World Bank, and other partners.
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#SDG1: Mars leads push to lift 500 million farmers from extreme poverty
The food giant is working with Oxfam on a new collaborative research platform to tackle the endemic poverty that permeates FMCG supply chains.
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- Agriculture
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Global health price tag could be $371 billion a year by 2030, WHO says
In a best case scenario of increasing investment to meet the goals, some 97 million premature deaths could be prevented between now and 2030, and up to 8.4 years of life expectancy could be added in some countries, the WHO said in report.
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- Health Care
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- global development, SDGs
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New study examines ecological underpinnings of world’s rural poverty
"The livelihoods of the rural poor are literally consumed by other organisms in complex ecological systems," explained Matthew Bonds, a visiting assistant professor of medicine at Stanford and co-author of the study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. "The environment's influence on poor rural economies makes them fundamentally different from the economies of more developed countries."
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- Environment
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UBS Raises $325 Million for Bono-Backed Impact Investment Fund
The Rise Fund, which counts Irish rock star Bono among its co-founders, aims to achieve "measurable, positive social and environmental outcomes alongside competitive financial returns", UBS said in a statement on Monday.
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- Investing
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