Stanford researchers quantified the cost of lifting people out of poverty globally, providing a framework to inform future policy decisions.

Nobuo Yoshida is Lead Economist, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank; Haoyu Wu is an Extended Term Consultant, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank. Note: The findings, ...

MONTGOMERY (AP) — A national poverty reduction expert gave the state kudos for its success in taking steps to help Alabama's impoverished, but she also issued the new Alabama Commission to Reduce ...

How do we address climate change, reduce poverty, and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet? Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time, and no country is immune. On this episode ...

This Joint Staff Advisory Note (JSAN) reviews the first Annual Progress Report (APR) on Somalia’s Ninth National Development Plan (NDP9). NDP9 is a nationally owned and comprehensive strategy for ...

Official surveys of household income and expenditure in Nigeria point to a rising tide of poverty and privation, especially for women. The recently released Nigeria General Household Survey-Panel ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WTEN) — There are 745,000 children living in poverty here in New York State, that’s one in every five. The Child Poverty Reduction Advisory Council met for the first time today to ...

A research article is revisiting one of the most widely cited explanations for terrorism: the idea that poverty and poor economic development are primary drivers of political violence.

First published in Revista Summa, El Heraldo, El Capital Financiero and Prensa Libre. Poverty remains a harsh reality for millions of people in Central America and the Dominican Republic. Despite the ...

(Reuters) -Pakistan’s sharp decline in poverty has stalled in recent years due to economic shocks and a lack of structural reforms, the World Bank said on Tuesday. The international lender said that ...

Muhammadu Buhari’s 100-million pledge was made in a country that had already demonstrated its ability to spend trillions on poverty rhetoric while poverty deepened. Halfway through Buhari’s promise, ...