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A Fruitful Endeavor Combats 'Food Desert' in Detroit

It's really hard to get fresh fruits and vegetables if you live in inner-city Detroit. Fast food joins are abundant but until recently, the liquor store was your best bet if you needed a head of lettuce. In fact, there are 26 times more liquor stores than grocery stores in Detroit.

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Millennium Development Goals and the Argument for Relevant Metrics

The United Nations' Millennium Development Goals consist of eight goals and targets that the UN hopes to achieve by the year 2015.

Most Rwandans now have access to basic health insurance. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rg-b/3243006413/in/photostream/">Paul Evans (Flickr)</a>

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Cheap Insurance Brings Big Benefits

Rwandan Sunny Ntayomba marveled when he met a U.S. student and learned that many Americans lack heath insurance.

The MPI would examine factors besides how much money this Nepalese woman makes picking tea. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps.

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A Richer Understanding of Poverty

What exactly does it mean to be poor? Is it strictly a matter of income, or do other factors count as well, like education and health?

A revolutionary microbicidal gel can reduce a woman's chances of acquiring HIV by 54 percent. Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps.

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AIDS Funding in Peril

Funding was a huge topic of concern at this year's International AIDS Conference, which took place last week in Vienna.

Indian women are profiting from increased access to feminine hygiene products. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mckaysavage/2229752965/">Mcaysavage (Flickr)</a>

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Can Tampons Prevent Poverty?

How are poverty and women’s periods related? Let me list the ways... Without access to products like tampons or sanitary napkins, women are less healthy, less educated, and less productive — all effects that contribute to poverty.

Kids looking snazzy in their new specs. Photo: <a href="http://www.fuseproject.com/products-45">Courtesy of Fuseproject</a>

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Creative Vision

While the term “four eyes” might strike you as outdated and retro, kids the world over still often think that glasses are the brand of a nerd.

"Start small with things we know are effective," suggests Esther Duflo. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalyan3/2313765916/">kalyan3 (Flickr)</a>

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Esther Duflo: Most Promising U.S. Economist

Esther Duflo is once again in the news, this time for having won the John Bates Clark medal.

Esther Duflo speaking at Pop!Tech in 2009. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/4039861869/">kk + (flickr)</a>

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A 'Rising Star' in Economics

Ever wonder why some development projects succeed while others fail?

Wadango has already distributed around 10,000 solar-powered lanterns. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/virgomerry/11227682/sizes/m/">**Mary** (flickr)</a>

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Solar Powered Lights in Kenya

In rural Kenya nearly everyone uses kerosene as their main source of power.

A child in Mexico City earns his wage cleaning windshields. Photo: <a href"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kuh/933434813/">Beto (Kuh) (Flickr)</a>

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New Opportunities with Oportunidades

So far, more than 4 million Mexican families have benefited from a government program aimed at combating some of the country’s toughest problems: poverty, illiteracy and poor health.

Angola has an estimated 13 billion barrels of oil. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaysha/3015359511/sizes/m/"> Kaysha (flickr)</a>

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Oil Wealth Brings Needed Shools, Clinics to Angola

Angola is consistantly ranked as one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world.

Eritrean child receiving a vaccine. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kioko/3065244324/">daveblume (flickr)</a>

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On a Mission to Vaccinate

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $10 billion-commitment over ten years to vaccinate children in developing countries on Friday.

Carol Ward helps to distribute high-energy biscuits to locals at a hospital in Port-au-Prince. Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps

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The Return of Economic Activity Eases Strain on Aid in Haiti

Yesterday the banks reopened in Haiti for the first time since the earthquake rocked the small island on January 12th.

Antiretroviral drugs. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunshine6/3337774882/">shortie 66 (flickr)</a>

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New Agreement Lowers Price of HIV/AIDS Medication

An enormous barrier in the fight against HIV/AIDS in developing nations has started to crumble.

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