Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University–led study. Based on household surveys in ...

Ensuring that poverty-alleviation initiatives reach those most in need has been slow and difficult in most developing countries. But if governments make the most of existing data and systems, carry ...

Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University-led study. Based on household surveys in ...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded $75 million to a consortium of leading global institutions, including the Pulte Institute for Global Development at the ...

United Nations experts have spoken of a persistent pattern of forced labor imposed by the Chinese state on Uyghurs, Tibetans, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz in Xinjiang and other provinces. Under the guise of ...

SIR: President Bola Ahmed Tinubu‘s recent policy decisions regarding the distribution of funds for palliative measures and subsidy removal in Nigeria have ignited discussions and raised concerns among ...

Like sunlight breaking through dawn, Shibadong's "targeted poverty alleviation" experience began to inspire places far beyond its mountains. Via this strategy, China had lifted 98.99 million ...

The Federal Government plans to spend about N206.50bn on poverty alleviation-related projects in the 2026 budget, an amount that represents far below one per cent of the total N58.47tn spending ...

KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato (PIA) — The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) and the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Region 12 signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on February 3 for a ...

As of June 2025, the Government of Japan has contributed US$854.3 million to the JSDF program, funding nearly 800 projects. The JSDF has become the leading source of support for innovation in ...