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 ...

Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University–led study. Based on household surveys in ...

Cash transfer programmes have emerged as a cornerstone of social protection strategies aimed at reducing poverty and promoting human development across low- and middle-income countries. Broadly ...

Ensuring that poverty-alleviation initiatives reach those most in need has been slow and difficult in most developing countries. But if governments make the most of existing data and systems, carry ...

In 2021, China declared a landmark achievement: the eradication of absolute poverty, following a decades-long effort that lifted around 800 million people out of destitution. By most estimates, this ...

The 98.99 million people who remained under the threshold in 2012 were lifted out of poverty, with many moving well above the ...

The Government has approved development projects valued at Rs. 23 billion under the “Prajashakthi” national poverty ...

Indonesia’s Coordinating Ministry for Community Empowerment is expanding programs to support micro, small and medium ...