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Favelas 4D – a project by MIT’s Senseable City Lab – has created a 3D model of Brazil’s biggest favela, Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, using laser technology.

World Humanitarian Day is marked on 19 August every year. The Forum's global leaders and shapers provide insight on how to move forward and strengthen the humanitarian response.

The UN says governments and banks must step up to prevent more people falling into poverty, as surging global inflation hits low-income earners the hardest.

From climate change making diseases more infectious to droughts getting worse around the world, here are some of this week's top climate change stories.

Governments and policymakers can support women entrepreneurs and female-led start-ups in Africa through targeted policies like gender-responsive budgeting.

Top economy stories: China cuts key interest rate; UK inflation jumps to double digits; Norway's sovereign wealth fund posts record loss of $174 billion.

Business leaders gathered to kick off a new initiative that aims to improve socioeconomic conditions and environmental resilience across Central America.

Only a third of workers who have quit their job in the past two years returned to the same sector. McKinsey groups them as reshufflers, re-inventors or re-assessors.

Wind farms could boost their output by modelling flows for groups of turbines instead of optimizing control of individual turbines, MIT engineers say.

Integrating the predictive modelling and surveillance used in disease control and climate change could pre-empt future outbreaks and pandemics, says the WHO.