The UN World Food Programme has had to halve the rations to refugees in several African refugees camps, although it has already been doing that in other camps, since May in Uganda and Tanzania. The reason is a funding shortfall mainly due to donor fatigue. Most camps restrict the movement of the refugees making it…

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation along with the UK government and the UN Population Fund are sponsoring a family planning summit to address how to close the gap with the more than 200 million women, largely in the less developed countries who want to use family planning methods but have no access to them.…

Luigi Zingales is an economics professor at the University of Chicago, the kind I’ve seen quoted in articles. He recently wrote an opinion piece for the NYT suggesting that instead of borrowing money for their college education, students could use their future earnings as collateral for the investors that would sponsor them with venture capital…