The Asian Development Bank has developed a new benchmark to measure poverty in Asia. The ADB says in a region that has seen stellar growth rates and rising income inequality, its new Asian poverty line can help policy makers measure and compare pove...
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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has educated many exceptional minds, including twenty-six Nobel Prize winners. Participants in the 2008 International Development Design Summit Recently an...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Female farmers in Rwanda and Sudan will learn about what kind of seeds to use, how to farm without chemicals and when to harvest The Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that poor countries...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. People carry a gay pride flag during a march in Mexico City on August 2, 2008 The seventeenth International AIDS Conference opened Sunday in the Mexican capital, Mexico City. About twenty-five thou...
The United Nations Foundation has raised over $20 million so far and supplied more than 700,000 treated bed nets to families. Transcript of radio broadcast: 27 July 2008 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Malaria parasites are sprea...
A nonprofit called Give the Gift of Sight holds clinics to provide free eye exams and used glasses. Transcript of radio broadcast: 20 July 2008 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Millions of people need eyeglasses to see clearly but...
The Green Alley program is an effort to reduce flooding, save energy and decrease heat in the city. Transcript of radio broadcast: 13 July 2008 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. An environmental project in the American city of Chic...
The nonprofit group provides free services and launched the Open Architecture Network. Transcript of radio broadcast: 06 July 2008 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Slums are densely populated areas of housing where people live in...
The World Community Grid is joining together individual personal computers to create massive processing power. The technology is helping reduce research time from years to months. Transcript of radio broadcast: 29 June 2008 This is the VOA Special E...