What if I told you every country on the planet just agreed to finance the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030–and do so in an environmentally sustainable way? You’d think it would be front page news, right? This is exactly...
Every year the UN Development Program crunches the available data on health and development and tracks progress against each of the eight Millennium Development Goals. Earlier this week, the United Nations released its final “progress report” on the MDGs. With just...
Today’s map comes from the Fresh-out-the-Oven State of Food Insecurity report, a flagship publication by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. It’s shows something pretty remarkable: global hunger rates and the prevalence of malnutrition are at their lowest points ever. The...
