South Africans have experienced significant shocks to their livelihoods, and the threat of hunger presents a major concern for health, political and social stability.

"The COVID-19 pandemic has just been devastating in Latin America, where the economic storm clouds were already gathering," the U.N.'s food agency chief warned.

Coronavirus and its restrictions are pushing already hungry communities over the edge, killing an estimated 10,000 more young children a month as meagre farms are cut off from markets and villages ar…

Coronavirus has disrupted treatments for other infectious diseases. Governments and funders can do four things to avert a coming catastrophe.

Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people each year. Lockdowns and supply-chain disruptions threaten progress against the disease as well as H.I.V. and malaria.

COVID was late to arrive in Africa, with initial infection and death rates lower than elsewhere in the world. Community transmission is however now accelerating in most countries, with lack of safe...

Malaria-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020 could be more than double those of 2019 if malaria-prevention activities are interrupted due to COVID-19, suggests a modeling study published in...

“People have gotten to the point where they just don’t give a damn,” said a minister in Kansas City, which is on pace for a record number of killings.

Worldwide, the population facing life-threatening levels of food insecurity is expected to double, to more than a quarter of a billion people.

Academic and former UN Assistant Secretary General Ramesh Thakur had suffered under the pressure, propaganda and manipulation that preceded the Iraq war of 2003. Seventeen years later, he sees...

The number of children who do not have enough to eat has soared in the pandemic, according to the Census Bureau and Agriculture Department.

Former students are taking illegal and often dangerous jobs in India and other developing countries, potentially rolling back years of progress in social mobility and public health.

Using the newly launched growth forecasts from the Global Economic Prospects , we can update the estimate of the pandemic on global poverty. The new growth forecasts contain two scenarios—baseline...

The comeback since the start of the pandemic is kind to those who can work from home, to firms serving them and to regions hospitable to them. Left behind are the less-educated, old-line businesses...