She told reporters that one of her party’s key focuses to fight poverty was attracting more ... twice the size of Germany and has the Kalahari Desert running through its center and the Namib ...

She told reporters that one of her party’s key focuses to fight poverty was attracting more ... high for voters in a country that has the Kalahari Desert running through its centre and the ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

In 2022/23, more than 16 million people, almost a quarter of the population (24 percent) were living in poverty. Over one in three children, 5.2 million (36 percent) are included in the figures.

Nearly half of single-parent households in Japan are living in a state of poverty, according to the 2021 Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions released by the welfare ministry on July 4.

Four football fields of land degrade into desert every second ... experts say that food insecurity, poverty, and mass displacement will accompany desertification. Desertification is a form ...

South Sudan, December 10, 2024 - A new South Sudan Poverty and Equity Assessment (PEA) Report, released today by the World Bank, indicates that poverty is endemic, and vulnerability is almost ...

The World Bank has announced that it has raised close to $24bn to provide loans and grants for some of the world’s poorest nations, which it can leverage to generate a record $100bn in total ...

As social workers describe it, the ComLink+ scheme gives children from poor families “a fighting chance” to move up the social ladder and stem intergenerational poverty. This is critical as ...

This Economic Issue is based on IMF Working Paper 00/78 "Rural Poverty in Developing Countries: Issues and Policies." Citations for the research referred to in this shortened version are provided in ...

But it has now embarked on what could be its most ambitious project yet – taming the heat in Riyadh, its sprawling capital, by turning the desert green. The objectives are to bring down ...