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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

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.

Bangladesh cities join U.N. drive to build defences against disasters

Disaster prevention – Jul 3, 2018

Women carry children as they make their way through a flooded area in Bogra, Bangladesh, August 20, 2017.

Opinion - Time to transform – and join up – climate adaptation

Climate change adaptation – Jul 3, 2018

Bangladeshi farmers collect saplings for sale in the fields at Keraniganj near the capital Dhaka February 22, 2007.

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.

Cheap solar ambulances to speed into service in rural Bangladesh

Transport – Feb 14, 2017

A view of a prototype solar-powered ambulance in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

'Flying news': Humanitarian media counter Rohingya refugee rumours

Refugees – Sep 26, 2018

Rohingya refugees on a bridge over a rice paddy in Chakmarkul refugee camp in Bangladesh on April 4, 2018.

Bracing for climate change in Bangladesh - safeguarding development in a warming world

Climate change adaptation – Oct 1, 2018

via UNDP

With solar farms and roof panels, Bangladesh inches toward green power goal

Solar – Oct 16, 2018

An aerial view of a new Technaf Solartech Energy Ltd. solar power plant in the Cox's Bazar District of Bangladesh, September 13, 2018.

'Insurance gap' threatens disaster-vulnerable poor nations - Lloyd's

Insurance – Oct 22, 2018

Villagers stand on top of tree trunks after floods hit at Muara Saladi village, in Mandailing Natal, North Sumatra province, Indonesia October 13, 2018.

Cities seek cash, tech to activate plans for safer, greener future

100 Resilient Cities – Oct 31, 2018

A girl stands nearby as cable cars pass behind her, at a viewpoint overlooking Medellin, after the city was designated "Innovative City of the Year" by Citi, the Wall Street Journal and the Urban Land Institute, March 1, 2013.

Cacti and credit throw Brazil's drought-parched farmers a lifeline

Climate change adaptation – Dec 17, 2018

Family farmers in northeast Brazil pose in a cactus field they planted to provide fodder for their dairy cattle, in this undated photo

Savings but no title deed? Loans help Kenyan women turn idle land into gold

Finance – Jan 9, 2019

Members of the HoriJabesa group doing record-keeping in Tuluroba village, eastern Kenya, December 6, 2018.

The new finance solutions building the resilience of African farmers and herders

Finance – Jan 12, 2019

A woman picks tea leaves at a plantation in Nandi Hills, in Kenya's highlands region west of capital Nairobi, November 5, 2014.

Innovations in online learning for refugees, slum children recognised with U.N. prize

Education – Feb 21, 2017

Rohingya refugee children attend an open air Arabic school at Kutupalang Unregistered Refugee Camp, where they learn to read the Quran, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, February 4, 2017.

Risk Finance for the Developing World

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Feb 21, 2019

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UCL Finance Event

Bangladesh opens first solar-powered food warehouse

Food – Feb 27, 2017

via The Daily Star