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East Africa a bright spot as world crawls towards energy goals

Energy access – May 2, 2018

A car is seen parked under solar panels at a solar carport at the Garden City shopping mall in Kenya's capital Nairobi, September 15, 2015.

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

Pakistan climate resilience to get a boost from World Bank funding

Climate change adaptation – May 29, 2018

via The Nation

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.

Growth in aid funding slows for second year

Aid – Jun 19, 2018

Women hold food aid distributed by humanitarian institutions in Afrin, Syria March 20, 2018.

Microfinance could help African cities solve housing crisis - experts

Housing – Jul 12, 2018

A resident reacts as he attempts to extinguish a fire that broke out at the Kijiji slums in the Southlands estate of Nairobi, Kenya, January 28, 2018.

UBS puts Indian girls into school - and makes a profit

Education – Jul 13, 2018

A schoolgirl sits on the doorstep of a house as she waits to go to school at Jodhpur in Rajasthan, April 6, 2015.

Are the Caribbean's wealthy new citizens a lifeline or a liability?

Caribbean – Jul 19, 2018

People lounge at Mount Cinnamon Resort's beach club on Grand Anse beach in St. George's, the capital of the Caribbean island nation of Grenada, June 1, 2018.

Campaigners and K-pop fans turn to crowdfunding for conservation

Environmental preservation – Aug 8, 2018

Archive Photo: A man reads a newspaper in front of a fence that depicts a forest to conceal construction work going on in the background in central Seoul March 6, 2013.

Colombian city helps young shun 'life choice' of gang violence

Crime – Sep 27, 2018

Participants of the TIP gang prevention programme (middle Camilo in grey shirt, middle left Fares), in Las Minas neighbourhood in Cali, Colombia, September 13, 2018.

Risk Finance for the Developing World

Event

Dec 12, 2018

11:54 UTC

London, United Kingdom

UCL Finance Event

The billionaire philanthropists intent on using satellites to save the world

Data analysis – Feb 27, 2017

Satellite antennas are pictured at the technical center of Signalhorn company in Leuk, Switzerland, in this 2016 archive photo.

BLOG: How do economies bounce back after a disaster?

Business – Mar 1, 2017

Woman carrying water in Woukpokpoe village, Benin.

Colombia's City of Women rebuilds homes and hopes

Women – Mar 27, 2017

(R to L) Maritza Marimon, Everlides Almanza and Ana Luz Ortega, members of the League of Displaced Women who built Colombia’s City of Women, have a meeting at the community centre in the Municipality of Turbaco, near the city of Cartagena in northern Colombia, February 13, 2017. TRF/Anastasia Moloney

The Preston model: UK takes lessons in recovery from rust-belt Cleveland

Finance – Apr 18, 2017

via The Guardian

Next era of market finance for resilience

Finance – Apr 27, 2017

via Meeting of the Minds

Combating climate change could boost G20 economies, OECD says

Finance – May 23, 2017

A man wearing a face mask walks on a bridge in front of the financial district of Pudong amid heavy smog in Shanghai, China, December 15, 2015.

Afghanistan needs infrastructure overhaul to face risks ahead - official

disaster risk reduction – May 24, 2017

Afghan men push a motorcycle as they cross a damaged bridge after a flood in the Surkhroad district of Nangarhar province, February 25, 2015.

World Bank says nations ill-prepared to battle pandemic diseases

Disease control – May 25, 2017

Medical workers in protective clothing arrive at Meixoeiro Hospital, transporting, according to local authorities, a possible new Ebola patient, in Vigo, Spain, October 28, 2015.

Cash-strapped cities struggle to clean up their climate act

Climate change – May 26, 2017

A wind turbine used to generate electricity is seen in the coastal area of the city of Fortaleza, Brazil, April 26, 2017.