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Fuente: Development Asia Hunger, as in the physical sensation, is easy to identify. But hunger the statistical category is more abstract.

Fuente: The New York Times Bill and Melinda Gates, the guiding force behind one of the world’s most influential philanthropies, discuss their foundation’s work, their marriage and reading.

Fuente: TED We’ve known how to cure malaria since the 1600s, so why does the disease still kill hundreds of thousands every year? It’s more than just a problem of medicine, says journalist Sonia Shah. A look into the history of malaria reveals three big-picture challenges to its eradication.

Fuente: Health and Science Poverty consumes so much mental energy that people struggling to make ends meet often have little brainpower left for anything else, leaving them more susceptible to bad decisions that can perpetuate their situation, according to a study published Thursday in the journal…

The Carlos Slim Foundation has been expanding its reach across Latin America, with new, large-scale partnerships like Mesoamerica, the health initiative with governments across the region, the Inter-American Development Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others. In this short interview,…

Fuente: Center for Global Development Many reform initiatives in developing countries fail to achieve sustained improvements in performance because they are merely isomorphic mimicry—that is, governments and organizations pretend to reform by changing what policies or organizations look like…

Fuente: center for global development If private markets can produce the iPhone, why can’t aid organizations create and implement development initiatives that are equally innovative and sought after by people around the world? The key difference is feedback loops. Well-functioning private markets…

Fuente: Talks | TEDx Collecting global health data was an imperfect science: Workers tramped through villages to knock on doors and ask questions, wrote the answers on paper forms, then input the data -- and from this gappy information, countries would make huge decisions. Data geek Joel Selanikio…

Fuente: The New York Times An analysis found that delaying clamping for at least a minute after birth significantly improves iron stores and hemoglobin levels in newborn babies.