THE world experiences improvements in safe and clean drinking water, as well as in sanitation and hygiene for healthy life ...

Health measures such as cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure and weight can play a role in predicting how long a person will live. But another indicator may matter nearly as much: your address.

It was a passion project for the treasurer, meant to help account for fairness and wellbeing while developing policy. Why has ...

Conflict and instability are exacting a devastating toll on 39 economies worldwide, accelerating extreme poverty, intensifying hunger, and pushing key development goals further ...

The Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) is a cornerstone of global infectious disease prevention. In 2024, WHO celebrated the 50th anniversary of this initiative.1 Since its inception in 1974, ...

A sense of being chronically alone is spreading and leading to increased health costs and productivity loss — as well as big ...

Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, the outgoing president of the African Development Bank, AfDB, stirred the hornet's nest when he said Nigeria's GDP per capita was $1,847 in 1960 but $824 in 2025, implying that ...

To this end, the various development policies, particularly health and demographic policies, particularly promoting quality of life and living standing in various regions and improving the education ...

China has made historic achievements in improving the people's well-being since 2012, said a senior official with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) -- the nation's top economic ...

Gap between the haves and have-nots in Irish society is beginning to be defined generationally as our ageing politicians look ...