When Raila Odinga took the African Union (AU) job last year, he let us know he had opted to move to a constituency larger than Kenya. In as much as it defused tensions on the local political scene, it ...

The national ‘cost of basic needs’ line places about 21.9pc of the population below the poverty threshold, based on 2018-2019 ...

ATLANTA, Nov. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The International Poverty Forum (IPF) , powered by Caring for Others , is mobilizing emergency relief for the people of Jamaica following recent storms that ...

Creek Street, the historic boardwalk in Ketchikan, Alaska. Alaska did not have the highest outright poverty rate. But it did experience a shocking increase in poverty among people aged 65 and older ...

A homeless encampment by San Francisco City Hall. (Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) In 2016, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond created a sensation with his Pulitzer Prize–winning ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP$1.9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for each ...

“You don’t care about the poor” is a serious accusation. The charge should carry a particularly high burden of proof when leveled at an entire political party or policy approach. Yet Eduardo Porter ...

(WIRRAL, England) — With the coldest months of winter fast approaching, a school in the U.K. has banned luxury coats in order to help “poverty proof” its educational environment. The head teacher at ...

I receive funding from the Wellcome Trust for my contribution to a separate research programme. I have previously been funded by the Nuffield Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation for work on ...