Global Development

GiveDirectly has delivered over $500 million in cash to impoverished people, letting recipients decide how best to meet their needs.

Heatwaves in Japan and Italy reached record-breaking temperatures in June. How can humans cope with these dangerous conditions?

The collapse in child mortality rates is a testament to the tremendous benefits of scientific, technological, and economic progress.

The year 536 ushered in the coldest decade in thousands of years and started a century of economic devastation.

In New Zealand, ambitious Kiwis want to launch a lawn mowing business; in South Africa, it's cooking gas refills. Start-up dreams vary widely.

Technology will not save the world, and it is inherently neither good nor bad. But, when tech is coupled to human virtue, good will prevail.

Enset, a perennial banana-like fruit cultivated in southwestern Ethiopia, is an underexploited starch crop with significant potential.

The Kazungula Bridge has turned a cartographic near-miss into a geopolitical marvel, with a chance to renew Africa's economy.

Which countries and rivers emit the most plastic to the ocean? What does this mean for solutions to tackle plastic pollution?

Our World in Data explains their mission to publish the “research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.”