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The jokes are too easy, the ramifications too deadly. People are dying all over the world from a lack of proper sanitation and hygiene - and access to basic sanitation services. Every year, 1.4 million children, including 200,000 children in India, die...

LONG VALLEY, New Jersey – One social enterprise is tackling three global issues by manufacturing high-quality and low-cost sanitation facilities for urban slums in the developing world. Sanergy, the for-profit/nonprofit hybrid founded by five MIT students...

Last wednesday was World Toilet Day, which is marked annually to bring into focus the plight of millions of people who do not have access to decent toilets. In Nigeria, the day came and went with hardly any official ceremony, leaving only a handful of...

This World Toilet Day, it's time for new solutions to tackle and old problem. Bill Gates once said that there are not enough smart people working in toilets. It's not hard to see why people finishing school today don't say, "I want to go and make toilets...

Nina Munk, journalist and author of The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book. Munk spent six years following Jeffrey Sachs and the evolution of the Millennium Villages Project--an...