Despite the often small amount of individual transactions, remittances from migrant workers aggregate into enormous amounts that go directly to some of the developing world’s most vulnerable families.

Since the COVID-19 outbreak began, people everywhere have been spending a lot more time in their homes, thinking about how and where they want to live. In the Netherlands, this retrospection is having a positive impact on the burgeoning tiny house [...]

Children are not the face of this pandemic, the UN acknowledges, but they risk being amongst its biggest victims.

That Kerala was able to recognise the threat posed by the coronavirus and respond to it so quickly is a legacy of decades of progressive politics and an egalitarian development strategy in the communist-run state.

Japan is celebrating 20 years of a social care system that provides cover in the final stages of life. In health crises like the current one, this policy can make fundamental differences in the quality of life and life expectancy of the [...]

More than 30,000 Cuban doctors, including the ‘white coats’ fighting coronavirus, are working overseas, in 67 countries. Most of them, around 20,000, are in Venezuela. Is this covert diplomacy? A money-making scheme? Or an example of the cooperation needed in the face of a global health [...]