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The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) has developed a new international measure of poverty – the Multidimensional Poverty Index or MPI – for the 20th Anniversary edition …

Obama to Back Business Tax Breaks With Stimulus Package

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti — A white sun beat high over Port-au-Prince as Orpha Dessources stepped from her tarpaulin newsroom into the city’s biggest slum, with a question no one wanted …

It is strangely comforting to see that the United States is not alone as it struggles in its morass of failed fiscal policy. P. O'Neill, a regular contributor to …

Peshawar, Pakistan - When they are not looking forlornly over what used to be their homes or trying to find help for relatives who have fallen ill, many Afghan …

Nairobi, Kenya - I have a supreme conviction that global food markets are but the perturbation of a butterflys's wing away from a serious tipping point. In fact, I …

Tokyo - A Greenpeace effort to expose what it sees as widespread corruption in Japan's government-subsidized whaling industry ended on Monday with two of its activists convicted of theft …

In an interview last week, Rep. Chris Van Hoellen, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, persistently refused to take cuts to Social Security off the table. He …

The Dove World Outreach Center's plans to burn Korans has prompted protests in Kabul and elsewhere around the globe. The United States' top commander in Afghanistan has warned that …

President Barack Obama's declaration Tuesday that the US combat mission in Iraq is officially over may give some Americans hope that US foreign policy may become less invasive and …