Indian states are deploying a new policy tool that shows potential to reduce their high air-pollution levels, which are estimated to have caused nearly 1.7 million deaths, or 18% of all Indian deaths, in 2019.
The policy tool — an emissions trading system...
Millions of poor people in developing countries in East Asia have escaped the threat of hunger by leaving the fields to work in factories producing manufactured goods to sell in the West. So, what happens to the prospects of the world’s poor when the West...
For decades scientists have been unable to determine why exactly there is a high incidence of diabetes and other metabolic diseases among individuals who are considered of normal weight in developing countries. A related puzzle is why undernutrition does...