Poverty is not just about having low income and being unable to buy necessary goods; it's also known to negatively impact mental health and cognitive abilities. New research suggests that nationwide ...

Rob F. Smith, WEF EDISON Alliance Founding Member and Agenda Contributor at the Annual Meeting 2019 Copyright by World Economic Forum / Valeriano Di Domenico WEF Data ...

Earlier this month, Sri Lankan President Anura Dissanayake and Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya ceremoniously unveiled their government’s Prajashakthi (Community Power) policy, declaring it would ...

Poverty is not just scarcity. It is exclusion, stigma, and invisibility. Poverty is not a personal failure. It is a systemic failure. A denial of dignity and human rights. Families in poverty often ...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes poverty as the “greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.” To eradicate it, coordinated efforts ...

A former National Coordinator of the National Poverty Eradication Programme, Professor Magnus Kpakol, has warned that cash transfers alone cannot lift Nigerians out of poverty, urging the Federal ...

Many were surprised when the Chief Minister of India’s Kerala state announced on 1 November 2025 that the state had eliminated extreme poverty. While debates over definition and measurement ensued, ...

However, despite the natural endowments and opportunities, according to the UBOS National Household Report of 2023/2024, Busoga remains the subregion with the highest poverty rate in Uganda, with 44% ...

MANILA: Manny Pacquiao, one of the greatest boxers of all time, was appointed to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s cabinet on Tuesday to lead The Philippines’ poverty eradication agency.