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Angus Deaton - Scottish scientist Angus Deaton has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics for his research on the relationship between consumption, poverty and w…
On March 14, 2007, the Ministry of Planning and Investment cooperated with the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Office to organize a workshop on cooperation on biodi…
Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and its founder, Muhammad Yunus, were awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
At its peak, Maya was one of the wealthiest civilizations in the Americas, but the Mayan and Central American and Mexican societies now face discrimination, exploitation…
In the new study published in JAMA magazine, researchers looked at how the problem of financial instability affects a person's health over time.
That is the latest study by Harvard University in collaboration with the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) and published in the Health Affairs magazine of the United States.
The world currently has 1.13 billion people living with high blood pressure, mainly concentrated in Asia and Africa.
Stresses and pressures caused by poverty can cause permanent damage to humans, according to a new study.
Research by American scientists found a direct link between family income, educational background and brain size of growing children and teens.
Miserable childhood scenes and chronic stress can lead to emotional disorders as adults.
Poverty can undermine a person's intellectual capacity, which can even reduce IQ by 13 points. This is the result of a study by US scientists published on August 29 in t…
The people of the world from rich to poor are gradually changing their eating habits due to food price increases in the past few years, a survey said.
Camel milk has long been recognized as a health food and can make an important contribution to poverty reduction in the localities where these animals are raised.
Severe malnutrition and other poverty conditions that children suffer for a long time in their early years can lead to long-term consequences for their intellectual deve…