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SUPPLIEDSpend My Super erected an installation of 160 pictures of babies at Britomart, Auckland, to highlight the problem of children born into poverty.A campaign encouraging wealthy superannuitants to donate their pension to combat child poverty has met with a backlash online. Spend My Super erected an installation of 160 pictures…

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There is growing awareness by the international development community and national governments that the local sphere of government is in the best position to facilitate the mobilisation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Here Mohammad Tarikul Islam (Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh) explains how engaging local development stakeholders can help Bangladesh reach its development goals.…

Boris Johnson might as well have made this week’s announcement about the go-ahead for a £106 billion high-speed rail link wearing a silk cravat and a frock coat.Here was a prime minister making grandiose promises to transform this nation through steel, just as his Victorian predecessors — Peel, Disraeli, Gladstone…

The Wall Street Journal has a sobering new article on a phenomenon that heretofore had gone largely under the radar: the elderly, or per US-speak, seniors, isolated in their premises and either too feeble and/or too cognitively impaired to take care of themselves. They are casualties of the progress of…

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Carly Rae Jepsen is not a celebrity. Unlike other pop stars of her calibre – and there are few – she gets to go outside. She can blend into the mass of New York City, or hike up the mountains near her home in Los Angeles, and barely prompt a…

The future of green industry is here — and Roxbury Community College is aiming to help workers access the jobs in the growing sector. RCC held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the Center for Smart Building Technology, a program designed to prepare students for the future of sustainable energy.  …