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As BRICS Cooperation Accelerates, Is It Time For The US To Develop A BRICS Policy?
BRICS foreign ministers meet in Cape Town, South Africa, in June 2023. Jaco Marais/Die Burger/Gallo Images via Getty…
Megacity Slums Are Incubators Of Disease – But Coronavirus Response Isn’t Helping The Billion People Who Live In Them
Having ravaged some of the world’s wealthiest cities, the coronavirus pandemic is now spreading into the megacities of…
Where Air Pollution Cuts Life Expectancy the Most
If you’re living in these ten countries, then your life expectancy is computed to be cut short by…
What Sort Of ‘Development’ Has No Place For A Billion Slum Dwellers?
Imagine a community of 200,000. Convivial, walkable, six times the density of Manhattan but with a smaller ecological…
These Charts Show Where The World’s Refugees Came From In 2017 – And Where They’re Heading
Where do most of the world’s refugees come from? And where do they end up? If you’re conjuring…
You Think You Have The Worst Job? Think again.
Did you ever heard the world’s worst job? Maybe sound hyperbolic but this man from Bangladesh has this…
Dhaka – A City With No Room For The Dead
Most graves in densely-populated Dhaka are temporary because the Bangladeshi capital has run out of room for its…