Lean Alfred Santos

Being poor is more than just the amount of money a person has.

Fatimah Kelleher

Educating girls is now at the core of much development thinking and programming, but illiteracy among women and older adolescent girls outside formal education is an increasingly critical issue that risks falling between the gaps. 

There's nowhere to hide now that Global Forest Watch has launched - citizens around the world now have all the information they need to monitor the state of the world's forests. 

Lynne Labanne

A quarter of the world’s sharks and rays are threatened with extinction according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, with ray species found to be at a higher risk than sharks.

Arthur Neslen Sep 18 2013

 An architect of the UN’s Millennium development Goals (MDGs) says he fears that a lack of strong leadership at the UN could lead to its poverty eradication goals being replaced by an over-politicised and unachievable “wish list” after 2015.

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Education has become increasingly dependent on the Internet and digital formats - especially higher education, though high, It was an inevitable evolution

The lowest median age is in Uganda at 15.5 yrs and the lowest level of education is Ethiopia at 2.5 years with a considerable size of working population. “Young developing” are mostly African and some middle eastern countries. “Young middle income” are mostly south American, the more advanced African countries, south Asian countries. "Young advanced income” are for the developed countries. The highest median working age is in Japan at 45 yrs and the highest level of education is in Japan at 13.5 yrs.

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