ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Efforts to combat child poverty in New York intensified as the Child Poverty Reduction Advisory Council (CPRAC) issued its final report, calling for targeted policies to cut ...

(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 ...

Nigeria plans to lift 50 million people out of poverty within five years; one of the most ambitious targets in its poverty reduction programmes. This raises a deeper question: what does it mean to end ...

Bonnie Krysowaty says there were no surprises in this year’s report on poverty in Thunder Bay, Ont., though the number of people struggling to afford the necessities is increasingly concerning. The ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s second most unequal region after Latin America, with deep-seated structural sources of inequality not only limiting poverty reduction, but growth itself. The report, ...

The well-being of Argentina’s families is now under threat from rising fixed costs, a phenomenon which, according to the UCA ...

The federal government has unveiled a sweeping reform of Nigeria's humanitarian and poverty reduction architecture, adopting a new unified framework aimed at ending years of fragmented interventions ...

Background Tobacco use imposes significant economic burden, particularly in low and middle-income countries, diverting ...

The provincial government says it is advancing work on a new 10-year Poverty Reduction and Prevention Strategy, focused on practical, forward-looking solutions to help reduce poverty rates to the ...