When I was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia recently as part of the U.S. government’s delegation to the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, I was struck by how much the international development landscape is changing. Where governments were once the primary source of development assistance, today the private sector, civil society, academia and donors are all working together to discover, fund and scale innovative solutions to longtime development challenges.

I think it is almost impossible to realize an up-scale world without poverty. Even if we change the appearance of the houses in slums, it will not change the fact of poor. However, I really hope that this could become true.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

“Are we supposed to, direct our anger at parents Or to the reasons of poverty?”

Returning to school after a few weeks away is a tough transition for many kids, but it's even harder for children living in stressful homes.

The poor

Many people in Russia’s “northern capital” do not live in standard apartments, but in palaces, or rather former palaces, known as kommunalki, or...