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The COVID-19 pandemic threatens the world with disaster. But the crisis also offers governments a rare chance to undertake policy changes that address the short-term public-health challenge and boost the global economy’s long-term growth potential.
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Governments increasingly recognise that economies can reach their full potential only with the full participation of both women and men. DAVID MALPASS explains how countries can start to achieve this goal. What do you think? Comment on this story at Project-Syndicate.org. Girls are attending school in greater numbers than ever before, and women are increasingly entering the […]
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Check out this positive news story from the Rooftop: a London Council has teamed up with local schools to raise awareness with drivers about air pollution in the area.
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Today’s positive news is from coffee farmers in Rwanda who are tasting the sweet smell of success thanks to a Fairtrade project funded by the Scottish Government.
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The next Einstein could be an African woman, but Africa’s gender gap in science education and jobs means the world may never know.
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Today’s positive news is from Leamington Spa, which has just had news of 500 new jobs to be created in the gaming industry.
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Brighton and Hove City Council has declared fighting fuel poverty a local priority.
Working with the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, the councillors developed a motion to examine the ways the local authority can tackle the problem.
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The global focus on ending AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria by 2030 has proven tremendously effective in rapidly scaling up access to treatment in developing countries. But if the world is to meet these ambitious goals, national governments and international development institutions must work together to build stronger health systems.
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In the fall out from the tumultuous UK general election, an organisation has launched a £100,000 fund to support new forms of everyday democracy.
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The most read positive news stories of 2019 revealed.
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