Poverty and Development

Coronavirus quarantines have boosted the number of children working in Venezuela, child rights activists are warning.

Mexican President Lopez Obrador and US Vice President Kamala Harris hold meeting to discuss migrant surge, corruption.

With shortage of beds and staff in rural health centres, poor make long treks to hospital while some turn to quacks.

We gather the numbers to know from the week’s biggest economic and business news stories.

One in every six young people aged 18 to 29 in Latin America and the Caribbean has left work since the pandemic began.

COVID and the crisis following a military coup this year could reverse economic gains made since 2005, UN body says.

UN Population Fund says London has shrunk its support by 85 percent ‘at a time when inequalities are deepening’.

Strike went ahead despite calls to postpone it due to COVID-19, with riot police using tear gas to disperse crowds.

Saudi Arabia’s agricultural product ban comes after finding millions of illegal pills hidden in pomegranates.

Even if foreign intervention ends, the war will not stop until Yemenis decide to forgive.

Prices have increased dramatically by as much as 300 percent for some basic food items over the past year.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not announce a stimulus package to offset the economic impact of the new shutdown.

The sanctions target a member of Guatemala’s Congress and a former presidential chief of staff.

Marica pays its residents a universal basic income, using its own digital currency, and procures its own COVID-19 jabs.