Extreme poverty is surging in Nigeria and other conflict-ridden nations, warns the World Bank. Conflict, instability, and economic downturn fuel the crisis, pushing millions into poverty.

A few weeks ago, Mr Charles Mwanguhya was among the many who picked nominations forms to contest in the party primaries of Uganda’s ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM).

What circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations? The answer to this question carries especially important implications for the design and evaluation of ...

ExplainSpeaking: The truth about poverty in India Bizarre as it may seem, especially for a country with so many people at low levels of income and consumption, as well as a country with an enviable ...

Outgoing United States Head of Mission Amy Diaz says she regrets that Malawi has not yet cracked the code for fighting corruption as she has seen more people getting poorer than when she first arrived ...

More than 200 households across the area have received help from Fermanagh and Omagh District Council's Poverty Support Programme. The community-driven initiative is focused on addressing relative ...

The poverty rate in the United States increased last year, the first increase in 13 years, according to the Census Bureau.

Coming to America after illegally fleeing her shtetl in Ozarinetz, Bessarabia (1900), Greenblatt was an ardent Zionist who established a ZOA branch and served as national president of Pioneer Women.

Board of Haredi news site preaching openness quits after founder renounces mission Shtetl CEO Naftuli Moster says he didn’t think 3-member board would ‘go along with my evolution,’ decision ...

F&D profiles MIT’s J-PAL, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, where Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have reinvented development economics.