September 20, 2023 – OTTAWA The ONE Campaign is applauding Canada’s announcement at the Climate Ambition Summit in New York today allocating $700 million in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) (valued at $1 ...

The World Bank Group has set a clear mission: ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward these ...

He emphasised that China’s success demonstrates that poverty is not an irreversible condition for developing nations. Citing ...

Susan Lanham, Amanda Thompson-Abbott, and Tom Norton of Marshall University discuss their research on the earned income tax credit’s effectiveness in alleviating poverty. This transcript has been ...

The new poverty assessment for Sierra Leone says the country faces many challenges in improving the welfare of citizens, but that urbanization offers an opportunity to improve living standards and ...

The creation of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) in late 1999 represented the culmination of more than two years of internal and external reviews and IMF policy discussions on the ...

Poverty rate reduced sharply from 2001 to 2015 Progress had been driven by urbanization Economic shocks since 2020 slowed the fall in poverty Sept 23 (Reuters) - Pakistan’s sharp decline in poverty ...

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 ...

Extreme poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon. Four of every five people below the $1.90-a-day international income poverty line lived in rural areas in 2013 (Castañeda and others, 2018). Over the last ...

This success reflects strategic vision, methodical policies, and concerted efforts by entire society. In 1986, the Party and State adopted the policy of shifting from a centrally planned economy to a ...