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Imagine being at the airport, ready to take your flight. You are waiting for checking in with all the other passengers, when a police officer approaches you. There is no particular reason he does so, he just stops, forcing you to go to a separate room for additional controls
For far too many children in Kenya, hunger is not just a missed meal here and there. It is the reason they can hardly keep their eyes on the board; the reason they will not show up at school tomorrow.
The key load would come from agricultural and irrigation uses, which are subsidized. Disperse villages require huge investment for grid based infrastructures, which will not be recouped by the utility companies.
In the past few weeks, during and after the UN general assembly, there has been so much hype about the Sustainable Development Goals inside and outside the development industry
There have been strides made towards rural electrification in India. According to official statistics, most states in the country have electrified over 96% of their villages, some like Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have reached 100% of electrified villages
In June 2015, the wire service Reuters ran a unique story - the “water wives” in Western India. The story quoted a man who said: “My first wife was busy with the kids. When my second wife fell sick and was unable to fetch water, I married a third.”
Eritrea has increasingly being known as a place of repression and tragedies in the global media, especially after the Lampadusa shipwreck disaster in October 2013
Armed without hard evidence, when the Pakistani government ordered Save the Children to shut down its operations on account of anti-state activities on June 11 2015, Pakistani social media was ripe with debate
In July, an entire week has been devoted to explore food-related sustainable practices at Expo Milan 2015. More than 600 participants have been involved. Contributors have presented an incredible amount of ideas and projects concerning food security
How do policy makers choose one way or another in a scenario of unlimited needs and meagre resources? Follow the policy that provides the maximum benefit for the entire population
