The organizers of a day-long meeting about poverty in Riley County are figuring out next steps, energized by what they say is interest they witnessed in tackling what has become ...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said measures would soon be announced to reduce child poverty, possibly hinting that the ...
Most poverty-fighting efforts focus on meeting basic material needs, such as food and shelter. But this overlooks the ...
People with poverty-level family income or increasing debt levels during early adulthood have higher odds of premature death, ...
As world leaders come to Brazil for climate talks, people like Cassiano are the ones with the most at stake. Poor communities ...
The Sustainable Food and Agricultural Systems work stream of the Business 20, a G20 engagement group, has endorsed three ...
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Microfinance and poverty reduction (II)

Mansuur IBRAHIMWith more than twenty percent of the country’s population living in poverty, the government of Ghana clearly faces an enormous challenge to reduce poverty – especially in the five ...
Deputy President Paul Mashatile told the NCOP that government is fast-tracking legislation and reforms to drive inclusive ...
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Measuring poverty in the age of climate change

How we understand and measure poverty has evolved. From early income-based definitions, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s “capability approach” in the 1980s broadened the concept, viewing poverty not just ...
Significant Improvement in the Living Standards of the Poor Through poverty alleviation, there has been a substantial ...
Jigawa State governor, Malam Umar Namadi, has announced that his administration has successfully reduced poverty by 15 ...