In Bangladesh, programs targeting ultra-poor, rural households can help families escape extreme poverty. However, the programs may have the unintended consequence of reinforcing gender gaps, a new ...
Fadumo Abdi Sheikh and her children lost everything about a decade ago when famine and drought forced them to leave their village in Somalia and flee to the city of Baidoa. The family struggled to get ...
BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A total of 832 counties, 128,000 villages and nearly 100 million people were living in poverty. This was the reality that China had to face. The task of providing support to ...
Mabel Chinomona, president of the Senate of Zimbabwe, visited Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region in July, a trip ...
The Ministry of Transmigration is deploying 36 training participants to China to gain knowledge on poverty alleviation and ...
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 ...
ISLAMABAD, 28 March 2018: The UN refugee agency and the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) launched Wednesday a pilot programme to help provide sustainable livelihood opportunities to both ...
A woman walks past tomato vendors at Mile 12 food market in Lagos, Nigeria. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Poverty in Nigeria has reached critical levels, recent data shows. About 31% of ...