I had never heard of Yunus, or microcredit, the term he used to describe lending small amounts of money to poor women, a way to help them become self-sufficient. Yunus insisted that microcredit ...
A recent study by researchers in China found that insufficient sleep during pregnancy may be associated with neurodevelopmental delays in children, especially in boys.
SINCE THE Industrial Revolution, rich countries have mostly grown faster than poor ones. The two decades after around 1995 were an astonishing exception. During this period gaps in GDP narrowed ...