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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.

Tailor climate insurance to needs of poorest - experts

Climate change – May 3, 2018

A farmer harvests his wheat crop on a field in the Beheira governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt April 4, 2018.

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

Air pollution increases crime in cities - researchers

Pollution – May 8, 2018

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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.

Opinion-Five years: A growing and evolving resilience movement

100 Resilient Cities – May 23, 2018

The city view shows Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 17, 2017.

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.

Caribbean set to ride "blue economy" wave, say economists

Economic development – Jun 1, 2018

A boy walks into the sea with his surfboard in Patillas, Puerto Rico, August 28, 2015.

Strict warming curb key to survival of world's most vulnerable - ex-U.N. climate chief

Climate change – Jun 1, 2018

People make their way through heavy smog on an extremely polluted day with red alert issued, in Shengfang, Hebei province, China December 19, 2016.

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.

Overlooked U.S. border shantytowns face threat of gathering storms

Climate change – Jun 12, 2018

Victoria Morales poses for a photo in a shantytown known as a colonia called Bent Tree near San Benito, Texas. April 6, 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.

Venezuelans survive by smuggling over the waves to Trinidad

Migration – Jun 20, 2018

A fishing village where boats from Venezuela arrive pictured in Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago, May 24, 2018.

Conflict, climate change choke efforts to cure poverty, inequality - UN

Climate change – Jun 20, 2018

Boys receive free food distributed to the needy during the fasting month of Ramadan at the Abdul-Qadir al-Gailani mosque in Baghdad, Iraq May 29, 2018.

US capital sued over gentrification 'pattern' seeking young, well-educated residents

Urban (re)development – Jun 28, 2018

ARCHIVE PHOTO: A man at the head of a line receives food at the Southeast Neighborhood House food bank in Anacostia in Ward 8 of Washington November 20, 2012.