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Savings Groups reach those rarely served by mainstream financial institutions.Maximum transparency, a profitable structure for saving, access to small loans and an annual lump sum of capital are the …

Poor people in developing countries need water for many purposes: for drinking, bathing, irrigating vegetable gardens, and watering livestock. However, responsibility for water services is divided be …

This publication will help all service providers to ensure that disabled children and young people with additional support needs can access services and lead a life as part of their local community, …

In the United States, the soaring cost of health care has become an economic drag and a political flashpoint. Moreover, although the country’s medical spending is higher than that of any other nation …

The world of research run by universities and other institutions is dominated by a culture that is white, upper-middle class and male. When people from communities that have previously been excluded …

It has long been recognized that agricultural research should involve the farmers themselves. Participatory agricultural research methods have been developed to help farmers and researchers to identi …

Our daily lives, our culture and our politics are now shaped by the digital condition as large numbers of people involve themselves in contentious negotiations of meaning in ever more dimensions of l …

The technical progress illustrated by the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data technologies, the Internet of Things (Io T), online platforms, NBICs, autonomous expert systems, and th …

Social factors, signals, and biases shape the health of our nation. Racism and poverty manifest in unequal social,  environmental, and economic conditions, resulting in deep-rooted health dispar …

Is being colorblind the most effective way to address overt and covert racism in schooling today? Should educators pretend that race doesn’t matter? Award-winning sociologist Laurie Cooper Stoll argu …