Poverty and Development

China lifted over 800 million people out of poverty over 40 years. For the relocated, the transition has been difficult.

A repeat of financial crisis era government spending cuts could foster even greater economic inequality, says UN agency.

Distance learning is difficult amid the COVID pandemic, with the impoverished south lacking access to...

A funeral parlour in Manila becomes a window into the lives and deaths shaping President Duterte’s...

While school bells are ringing again in some countries, nearly 24 million students could drop out for good next year.

TV comes to rescue as half of sub-Saharan Africa’s children do not have internet access, according to UNICEF.

UN calls Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis with 80 percent of the population of 30 million in need of aid.

If the world continues to treat our situation as ‘normal’, it may soon be too late to save my homeland and my people.

The rural jobs scheme has helped millions to find work, but the coronavirus pandemic is stretching it to its limits.

Transitional government criminalises raw gold and precious minerals transactions, blames opponents for drop in currency.

Risk consultancy blames apartheid-era laws for high inequality and post-independence gov’ts for failing to create jobs.

Nurses in Venezuela face higher risk of catching COVID-19 because of shortages of proper gear and even clean water.

Africa’s most industrialised economy was already suffering from high unemployment and power cuts before COVID-19 struck.

President Bashar al-Assad says he wanted to boost business ties with Russia to help Damascus cope with new US sanctions.