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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

Insurance turns to coral reefs and mangroves as ocean risks surge

Climate change – May 14, 2018

Oliver Lanyon, a senior ranger in the Great Barrier Reef region for the Queenlsand Parks and Wildlife Service, takes photographs and notes during an inspection of the reef's condition in an area called the 'Coral Gardens' located at Lady Elliot Island, 80 kilometers north-east from the town of Bundaberg in Queensland, Australia, June 11, 2015.

From camels to catfish, Algeria boosts fish farming in the Sahara desert

Farming – May 20, 2018

Camels on a 15-hectare farm co-owned by Milouda Mohammed and his brothers in Touggourt, a town in the Sahara, in southern Algeria, April 12, 2018.

Locals pioneer safer fishing alternatives to protect seas off Madagascar

fishing – May 29, 2018

A sea cucumber farmer tends her pen in Tampalove, southern Madagascar, February 19, 2018.

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.

Malnutrition the 'challenge of our time', say award winners

Nutrition – Jun 25, 2018

Yasir Camelo, 5, eats a tropical fruit called "pomarosa" from a tree in front of his house in La Fria, Venezuela, June 1, 2016.

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.

Risk Finance for the Developing World

Event

Dec 11, 2018

18:10 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.

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.

'Historic mistake' by Trump - but climate action will go on, experts say

Climate change – Jun 1, 2017

A resident paddles his kayak out of his neighborhood after checking the condition of his house as river levels rise into town in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, in Greenville, North Carolina, U.S. October 14, 2016.

Zilient Webinar: Financial inclusion efforts to reduce the world’s underbanked population

Finance – Jun 13, 2017

Zilient Webinar: Financial inclusion efforts to reduce the world’s underbanked population

Zilient Webinar: Financial inclusion efforts to reduce the world’s underbanked population

Event

Dec 11, 2018

18:10 UTC

Zilient Webinar: Financial inclusion efforts to reduce the world’s underbanked population

Technology and trust key to unlock financial services for refugees and the underbanked

Finance – Jun 21, 2017

Syrian refugee Mohammed Said Amin, 48, collects cash assistance provided by the U.N. World Food Programme at a refugee camp in Akre, Iraq