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A new fund claims to be a global source of funding for local initiatives that improve the lives of people and the planet and to be built by voluntary contributions from businesses and people worldwide.

 

Both material wealth and wider quality of life - for countries and individuals - can be measured through the prosperity index.

A new index shows the relative efficiency with which nations convert resources into long and happy lives for their citizens.

As border conflicts account for much of the world's military-industrial spend, it is argued that we need to understand better how people, money, power, religion, culture  interact to change the map of the world, and thereby better anticipate future geopolitical changes.

Banks have received 10 times more money in bailouts in the past year than poor countries have received in aid in the past 49 years, says a new UN analysis.

The global pay gap between men and women is higher than previously recorded.

Impoverished women farmers worldwide are demanding ownership of the land they cultivate.  Women produce up to 80% of food in most developing countries, but own less than 2% of the world's titled land.

Money can buy you happiness, after all, according to authoritative recent research - but only so long as you spend the money on someone else.

• Migration - the global financial, food, and fuel crises and the negative impacts of climate change pose a severe threat to the world's 37 million uprooted people.

• Happiness - a new study suggests that happiness is the true measure of wealth.