The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that message at the grassroots level.

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.