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Gates Foundation’s Annual Goalkeepers Report Shows COVID-19 Has Stalled 20 Years of Progress, Calls for Global Response to End the Pandemic

September 24, 2020

Report shows how economic damage has reinforced inequities and derailed achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals; spotlights countries innovating to meet challenges The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched…

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Global Poverty: Coronavirus Could Drive It Up For The First Time Since The 1990s

June 17, 2020

As COVID-19 slows in developed countries, the virus’s spread is speeding up in the developing world. Three-quarters of new cases detected each day are now in developing countries. And as…

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How COVID-19 Is Reversing The Progress In The Fight Against Global Poverty

May 29, 2020

Various forecasts suggest that years worth of poverty reduction are slowly being negated by COVID-19. Forecasts from multiple organisations show that the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to push millions of…

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Black Americans Mostly Left Behind By Progress Since Dr. King’s Death

January 20, 2020

On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back then, over a half century ago, the wholesale racial integration…

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How Asia Transformed From The Poorest Continent In The World Into A Global Economic Powerhouse

October 28, 2019

In 1820, Asia accounted for two-thirds of the world’s population and more than one-half of global income. The subsequent decline of Asia was attributed to its integration with a world…

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Gates Foundation’s Annual Goalkeepers Report Shows COVID-19 Has Stalled 20 Years of Progress, Calls for Global Response to End the Pandemic

Global Poverty: Coronavirus Could Drive It Up For The First Time Since The 1990s

How COVID-19 Is Reversing The Progress In The Fight Against Global Poverty

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Black Americans Mostly Left Behind By Progress Since Dr. King’s Death

How Asia Transformed From The Poorest Continent In The World Into A Global Economic Powerhouse

Singtel And Great Eastern Partner To Offer General Insurance Products With Telco-centric Benefits

ESG, IMDA And NRF Commit S$40 Million To National Innovation Challenges To Help Companies Emerge Stronger Post-COVID

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LTA Awards Civil Contract To Construct Three Stations For The Jurong Region Line

Singapore Airlines Launches Flight Pass To Offer Customers Greater Savings And Travel Flexibility

Sembcorp To Build 8.2 Megawatt-Peak Solar Power Energy System On Singapore Airlines And SIA Engineering Company’s Properties

Grab And National Private Hire Vehicles Association To Jointly Provide Training Courses For Driver-Partners

Here Are The Cleanest And Most Corrupt Governments Of The World

DBS Further Boosts Its Cash Flow Support For SMEs, Upsizes Collateral-free Digital Business Loan To SGD 200,000

The Building Blocks Of Trustworthy AI

Trump’s global trade plans are in disarray, after a US court ruling on ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs

Trump’s global trade plans are in disarray, after a US court ruling on ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs

315,000 Singaporeans have used new career and skills planning tool by SkillsFuture Singapore

The Definitive Who’s Who of the 2025 Papal Conclave

The World Is Revalidating Itself

IBM and Oracle Expand Partnership to Advance Agentic AI and Hybrid Cloud

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Canonical Releases Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin

Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowds

Tokyo Electron and IBM Renew Collaboration for Advanced Semiconductor Technology

Tariffs, Trump, and Other Things That Start With T – They’re Not The Problem, It’s How We Use Them