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Need answers? The Question Box helps people Google can't reach

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Much needed food aid being distributed in Sukkur, Pakistan. Photo: <a href= "http://www.flickr.com/photos/14214150@N02/4973650367/"> Rob Holden, UK Department for International Development (Flickr)</a>

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The politics of hunger: Good governance effective at fighting malnutrition

Malnutrition, which prevents children from reaching their physical and intellectual potential, is falling. The most significant cause? It's becoming a politically important issue in its own right.

Check out this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myz8llpbpDU">video</a> to hear directly from Howard and learn more about Vittana. Photo: Vittana

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Student Loans: A Gap in the Microfinance Market

Microfinance, as a poverty alleviation strategy, was popularized in the development sector thanks to the work of Muhammad Yunus. Traditional microfinance loans are distributed to small business owners and entrepreneurs with the goal of increasing the scale and profits of their businesses.

Idle mining cars on a train track in La Oroya, Peru. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fiemme/2874972806/">Max Opp (exoppholdsvaer) (flickr)</a>

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Toxic Work in Peru

La Oroya, Peru, is one of the ten most polluted places in the world, according to the Blacksmith Institute, a New York-based global health agency.

Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marksun/2334923536/">Mark Sun (flickr)</a>

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Cooking Up Hope: Empowering Women through Community Kitchens in Peru

When stomachs go hungry, the women of Lima, Peru, find themselves cooking for half a million of its residents in one of the thousands of community kitchens spread across the city.

Rainforest destruction and tribal interests conflict with development. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/orvaratli/1555279921/">Orvarati (flickr)</a>

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Newly Discovered Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Need Protection

One of the world’s last uncontacted tribes was photographed this week from a helicopter flying over the Amazon rainforest, near the Brazil-Peru border.

Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tatianacardeal/1481378/">Tatiana Cardeal (flickr)</a>

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Poverty Amid Progress in Peru

Peru has one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America. Over the past six years, the country’s GDP has grown more than 6 percent annually.

Photo: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/marirs/184729631/">marirs (flickr)</a>

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Taters Take a Tour

The potato has been making headlines recently, and the gist of all the stories is that we are not to be taking this celebrated spud for granted.

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Are Bigger Countries an Unfriendly Place to Micro-finance?

Lucy Conger's story "The Big-Country Enigma" examines why micro-credit has flourished in smaller countries like Peru and Bolivia while remaining somewhat small in scale in countries such as Brazil.