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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 1, 2015
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Every year, the first week of August is dedicated to promoting the exclusive feeding of newborn infants with natural breast milk, which evidence shows can ensure numerous health benefits for mother and child. There are few if any specialists…
- Categories: Health and Population, Poverty, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 27, 2013
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Fazle Hasan Abed runs the world’s largest nongovernmental development organization. He has garnered numerous international prizes, honorary degrees, very important friends and a British knighthood. Yet in the United States, Abed’s successes, won through a creative self-help program centered…
- Categories: Asia, Development, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 13, 2013
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For the developing world, the news in the 2013 United Nations Human Development Report is almost all good. (More on that “almost” later.) The title of the report, The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World,…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, Health and Population, Special Report