Women in Europe should be given “greater economic independence” through equal pay, childcare support and the sharing of domestic duties to ensure that they do not...
These days, the promotion of child marriage has shocked the Indonesian people. This promotion is under the guise of a wedding organizer to attract the public...
More than 75 percent of poor households in India reported a decline in their income as a result of a road traffic crash. The financial loss...
The European Union’s failure to lift 20 million people out of poverty by 2020, is “a defeat for social rights”, an independent UN human rights expert...
In a year – or two or three – we will have mostly forgotten the pandemic. But the unprecedented third world debt the virus has created...
The wall of mistrust between the people and the rulers of Iran is growing ever higher. Contributing factors to this widening gap are too many to...
Inequality between the rich and poor worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic and poverty increased, for the first time in decades. In part two of our series...
The World Bank Group (WBG) discussed a new five-year Country Partnership Framework (CPF) from 2021 to 2024 and approved a $1.5-billion package to help build a...
An additional 207 million people could be pushed into extreme poverty by 2030, due to the severe longterm impact of the coronavirus pandemic, bringing the total number...
More than 32 million of the world’s poorest people face being pulled back into extreme poverty because of COVID-19, leading UN economists said on Thursday, highlighting...
