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Despite the relatively large number of employees working in downtown Detroit, the city continues to be afflicted by urban blight, surrounded by a…

Innovations for Successful Societies (ISS) is among eight organizations to receive funding from the British Academy as part of its £4 million global…

Class: “Preschool, Primary and Secondary Education in South Africa”Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Half of the 220,000 people killed in the Syrian civil war have been civilians. Untargeted barrel bombings have crumbled cities and diminished basic…

"Making government work."On the surface, the phrase seems simple. For a government to run efficiently, it needs to take the right steps — a strategic…

In 2008, a magnitude-7.9 earthquake struck China's Sichuan province, leaving more than 87,000 people dead or missing, and millions homeless.

Fatima went into labor with her first child at the age of 16. As is custom in her nomadic community in western Sudan, she planned to deliver the baby…

Ebola is difficult to contract. The disease is not airborne like influenza or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) – a healthy person must come…

Is there hope for building better societies? A new panel is gathering hundreds of global experts to find out.

Sub-Saharan Africans rate their health and health-care systems among the lowest in the world, according to a new report published by Princeton…