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Opinion-Smart, fair financing is master key to unlock energy access in Africa

Energy access – Apr 27, 2018

Solar panels are seen during the inauguration ceremony of a solar energy power plant in Zaktubi, near Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, November 29, 2017.

Power-for-all push risks leaving out Africa's poorest - official

Energy access – Apr 30, 2018

Students use a bulb powered by a car battery to do their homework in Al Fashir in North Darfur, Sudan, Aug. 12, 2017.

Migrant workers sent $256 billion home to Asia-Pacific last year - UN

Remittances – May 7, 2018

ARCHIVE PHOTO: An employee checks dollar bills at a money changer in Manila March 28, 2012

Social investors see the light on clean energy for the poor

Renewable energy – May 10, 2018

Fikile Mthiyane takes a break from cooking a family meal in KwaNdengezi, South Africa, August 31, 2017.

Poverty and politics trip up urban refugees in India

Refugees – May 11, 2018

A Rohingya refugee woman plays with her children outside her home in a settlement that later burned down in New Delhi, India. Photo taken Feb. 18, 2018.

U.N. agency seeks to marry 'social good and profit making'

social enterprise – May 23, 2018

Men stand in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh September 4, 2014.

Gender pay gap could cost world $160 trillion - World Bank

Gender equality – May 30, 2018

Chrifa Nimri, 69, fisherwoman, returns to her home after finishing work, at the seaport Sidi Bou Said, in Tunis, Tunisia February 23, 2017.

Lack of hope in South Sudan camps drives youth into gang crime

Conflict – Jun 4, 2018

Puok Barar, 16, poses for a portrait at his school in a Protection of Civilians (PoC) camp on the outskirts of Juba, South Sudan, March 23, 2018.

Armed with micro-grants and training, rural Ugandans tackle poverty

Poverty – Jun 8, 2018

Aguti Rukia and her husband examine their solar pay-as-you-go kit in Arubela, Uganda, February 14, 2018.

Godfather of investing for good says capitalism leaving people behind

Impact investment – Jun 11, 2018

Sir Ronald Cohen addressing the 2017 Global Steering Group Impact Summit in Chicago July 11, 2017.

Venezuelans sell sex and hair to survive in Colombian border city

Poverty – Jun 11, 2018

Sex workers sit on a street corner in the Colombian city of Cucuta, May 30, 2018.

Can 'land banks' help rebuild post-industrial U.S. cities?

Housing – Jun 13, 2018

Workers prepare to put together a single-family modular home in Depew, N.Y., in February 2017

Recycling rubbish into revenue - the scheme bringing hope to women in Jordan

Recycling – Jun 18, 2018

Sameera Al Salam displays some of the products she has made as part of an up-cycling project in Irbid governorate, northern Jordan, May 8, 2018.

With Batik shirts and local action, cities can deliver on global goals

SDGs – Jul 10, 2018

A young man jumps into the water to cool himself off in Malmo, Sweden May 30. 2018.

10 facts about the world's population

Population – Jul 10, 2018

A volunteer posts pledges on the commitment wall during the observance of the World Population Day with the theme "investing on adolescent girls" at the Rizal memorial stadium in metro Manila, Philippines July 11, 2016.

As technology advances, women are left behind in digital divide

Women – Jul 10, 2018

Staff wait for for Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to arrive for a visit to the Francis Crick Institute in London, April 18, 2018.

Half of national climate plans neglect people in danger, say researchers

Climate change adaptation – Jul 11, 2018

An indigenous woman wades through floodwaters at a farm after heavy rains in Bolivia's highland region of Masaya, 60 km west of La Paz, March 9, 2012.

New York says first city to show how faring on goals to end social woes

SDGs – Jul 11, 2018

The skyline of lower Manhattan is seen from the Staten Island ferry in New York Harbor in New York City, U.S., June 27, 2018.

Forced to walk miles, India water crisis hits rural women hardest

Water – Jul 13, 2018

A woman helps another in carrying metal pitchers filled with water from a well outside Denganmal village, Maharashtra, India, April 20, 2015.

With drones and satellites, India gets to know its slums

Informal housing – Jul 24, 2018

Residents gather around a mobile museum displayed on an improvised handcart in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, in Mumbai, India, February 18, 2016.