The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced that it has bestowed 76 grants of $100,000 each to scientists who have come up with unconventional ways to destroy infectious diseases in the developing world. Below are some of our favorites.

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new report says investing in girls is one of the best ways to end poverty, because women who are educated are likely to reinvest up to 90 per cent of their income in their family.

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Women in the developing world are the focus of the Aug. 23 edition of The New York Times Magazine.

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...deaths from abortion count for 13% of maternal deaths worldwide. Nearly all occur in the developing world, where the rate of death from abortion is hundreds of times higher than that of the UK.

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You've actually been told a lot of lies, but right now I'm going to focus on just one. It comes in many different forms: 1. Organics yield less/much less/half as much as conventional ag. 2. Organics can never feed the world.

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Charity workers say the government has allowed the fund, Actis, to skew Britain's priorities overseas in its pursuit of high returns by depriving poor rural communities of investment.

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The "extraordinary" £1m-a-year salary for the head of a government-owned company set up to combat developing world poverty has been attacked by MPs.

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Around 20 million migrant workers have returned to the Chinese countryside after failing to find work in the cities because of the economic downturn, a senior official said today.

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I believe in health care as a human right. I've worked as a doctor in many places, and I've seen where to be poor means to be bereft of rights. More Articles

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A photoblog (Flickr) invites participants to catalog the answer to this very peculiar but apt question: What can you still get for five bucks?! And what does that mean to people around the world?

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Newsvine Futurists' Challenge -- Day Five, Final

Today is the final day of our Newsvine Futurist's Challenge, featuring the last two predictions from the World Future Society's Top Ten Forecasts for 2009 and Beyond.

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Developing countries should refuse to revive the international trade round if they get little in return

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World economy is showing signs of life outside the developed world (i.e., the US and Western Europe), causing some concern that power may be shifting to the Global South.

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Food prices are soaring, a wealthier Asia is demanding better food and farmers can't keep up. In short, the world faces a food crisis and in some places it's already boiling over.

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Tropical forest countries will be eligible for payments for preventing deforestation under a program unveiled last week by the World Bank.

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Computer enthusiasts in the developed world will soon be able to get their hands on the so-called "$100 laptop". The organisation behind the project has launched the "give one, get one" scheme that will allow US residents to purchase two laptops for $399 (£198).

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The One Laptop Per Child initiative has reached new heights by delivering internet porn to third world children.

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It sounds too good to be true, but the Human Resources Development ministry in India is trying to get engineers to devise a $10 laptop.

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When I say "laptop", this OLPC machine looks nothing at all like my modern Windows Vista based laptop.

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Lessons on Globalization: Jamaica as a Microcosm

Underlying many of today's contentious issues is the growing interconnection of the world in all senses - political, economical, and cultural.

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Existing divisions between rich and poor countries will be sharply exacerbated by the pattern of climate-change effects in the coming years, the latest United Nations report on the effects of global warming has made clear.

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Globalization — a word known to a small number of academics 20 years ago — has become one of the principal buzzwords of the 21st century.

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AMD plans to award a $250,000 prize to whoever can design a computer lab that can be adapted and implemented in third-world countries.

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