More: Poverty
Analyzing China Solar Energy for Poverty Alleviation (SEPAP) Program
In 2014, China deployed a large-scale initiative named as Solar Energy Poverty Alleviation Program (SEPAP) to systematically alleviate poverty in poor areas including underdeveloped...
Who can live in England with less than £3 a week?
A study from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that 7 million families in England have gone without things like heating, toiletries or showers this...
COVID-19 Elevated Poverty in The Gambia
The Gambia’s poverty rate has climbed to 53.4 percent largely due to COVID-19 according to The Gambia Poverty and Gender Assessment 2022 report. The...
Dhaka’s poor are suffering from heatwave: How to deal with it?
Authors: Md. Obaidullah and Md. Showkat Raihan*
Heatwave is a meteorological phenomenon, it is typically found to occur in Bangladesh during the summer and monsoon...
Fighting against poverty: the impact of inflation on households’ purchasing power
Authors: Pablo Acosta and Folha de S. Paulo
As the COVID-19 pandemic began to ease its effects on households across the globe, another crisis started...
Surge in poverty-stricken children in Eastern Europe, Central Asia
Rising inflation and the Ukraine war have triggered a 19 per cent increase in child poverty across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to...
Global Progress in Reducing Extreme Poverty Grinds to a Halt
The world is unlikely to meet the goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 absent history-defying rates of economic growth over the remainder of...
Social contract needed to lift Asia and Pacific region’s workforce out of poverty
Denied decent work opportunities and highly vulnerable to systemic shocks such as pandemics or economic downturns, workers in Asia and the Pacific are under...
Champion young people as ‘drivers of change’
Young people must be recognized around the world as “drivers of change” and empowered to become “fully engaged in decisions affecting their future,” said...
Achieving the SDGs in extraordinary times
Authors: Armida Alisjahbana, Woochong Um and Kanni Wignaraja*
The start of the “Decade of Action” to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has...