The debate over immigration is once again taking off in the United States. The sudden influx of more than 57,000…
The amount of money spent on humanitarian aid reached a record high last year. Disasters like the typhoon in the…
While high profile global health issues like AIDS and malaria garner more attention and funding, tuberculosis (TB) is increasingly becoming…
Alright, this one should not have been that hard. South Africa is far and away the leader in carbon dioxide…
Some counties in the US have life expectancies that resemble countries with much fewer resources. For example, in McDowell County, West Virginia, male life expectancy (64 years) is lower than life expectancy in Bangladesh while females in Sunflower County, Mississippi have a life expectancy (74 years) that is lower than females in Algeria.
President Obama’s first stop on his Africa tour is Senegal. We can’t say for sure what the President hopes to…
UNICEF has put out an analysis and interactive mapping tool ranking the wealthier countries on how they do when it comes to child well-being. The US is right down there in the bottom third of this report card, with Lithuania and Romania. Go Team America!
Washington DC – Sequestration hits the US federal budget on Friday. The Washington Post features a countdown to Friday on the…
Tom Murphy at A View from the Cave adds his five myths about foreign aid to the Center for American…
AidWatch’s Bill Easterly today pointed out some interesting interactive maps that he says show pockets of the “Third World” in…