January 08, 2013 / Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Leora Klapper
The World Bank's Development Research Group Global Findex is a gold mine of data about how people around the world save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk in their day-to-day lives.
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August 27, 2012 / Bill Gates
Angola marked a full year, this past month, without a new case of polio.
July 26, 2012 / Jennifer James
By 2015 15,000 midwives will effectively care for seven million African women each year.
January 17, 2012 / Erin Hohlfelder
Friday the 13th is a day known for superstition, fear, and bad luck. But the global health community in India attained a milestone that will ensure that we remember this past Friday the 13th as a day of progress and hope.
May 13, 2011 / John Wecker
At the end of African Vaccination Week last week, top health officials in Sudan held a press conference in which they announced their intention to introduce, on a nationwide scale, a vaccine against rotavirus—the most deadly cause of severe and fatal diarrhea.