Board of Shtetl, news site covering haredi Orthodoxy, resigns after founder renounces mission “The need for such a news source remains urgent,” the three board members wrote.

The journalist board of the nonprofit news site Shtetl, as seen on June 20, 2025, resigned over the site founder’s changing vision. (Screenshot) ...

A forgotten Jewish community still thrives in the Caucasus. Once common across Eastern Europe, shtetl life disappeared—except for one place. This is the extraordinary story of the world’s last ...

India has made significant progress in poverty reduction, lifting 171 million people out of extreme poverty, with rates dropping from 16.2% in 2011 to 2.3% in 2022–23.

Nigeria’s next election circle in 2027 may face serious disruptions due to worsening poverty and escalating insecurity in the country, a new report by YIAGA ...

Workers face a growing divide between time needed and time available, which experts say harms their well-being and businesses.

Poverty alleviation: what really makes a difference?Poverty alleviation: what really makes a difference? Self-employment also plays a key role in lifting families out of poverty.

The Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) seeks to understand poverty beyond monetary deprivations (which remain the focal point of the World Bank’s monitoring of global poverty) by including access ...

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.

The World Bank on Friday said increase of conflicts and related fatalities since the early 2000s has fueled extreme poverty. This was as it said economies in fragile and conflict-affected regions ...

Conflicts and related fatalities have more than tripled since the early 2000s, fueling extreme poverty, the World Bank said Friday.