Nurith Aizenman
[Copyright 2024 NPR]
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It's the Green Climate Fund. It was called out last week by President Trump, who said he would cut off U.S. "billions." What does it do, exactly, and what will be the impact of the cutback?
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It wasn't that long ago. Just last fall. Nearly 45,000 people signed a petition in protest. Then again, the Amazon warrior has always been a controversial figure.
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The administration wants to reduce the current $8.7 billion global health budget by about 26 percent. Family planning programs would be the hardest hit.
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The president has long looked to China and India as a model for galloping economic growth. Here's why it's unlikely that the U.S. could grow even half as fast.
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The administration claims the U.N. population agency supports China's "coercive" abortion policies. UNFPA calls the claim "erroneous."
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When the president took action to block U.S. foreign aid funding of groups linked to abortion, a Dutch government official started fundraising.
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Just as we rank hurricanes and earthquakes, officials have developed a five-phase scale to rank food crises.
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A new report finds that remittances by migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean topped $69 billion last year — the highest amount on record.
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There's a growing effort to actually test whether aid programs work. But how much has it accomplished?
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A new study tries to find out what happens when girls in the developing world are on their period. And it's complicated.