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Poverty surges across Pakistan with spike in food, energy prices:...
The Macro Poverty Outlook, which was prepared for the recent annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF in Marrakesh, Morocco, prolonged and high...
3 of poverty-struck family die by suicide in Madurai
The incident came to light on Thursday, after a foul smell started emanating from the house and neighbours alerted the Anna Nagar police station.
Food security: Achieving zero hunger is still possible
The pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and climate change have reversed most of the progress made toward eliminating global hunger and malnutrition over...
UN praises India's 'remarkable' poverty reduction
In neighbouring Bangladesh and Pakistan, 19 million and 7 million individuals came out of poverty during 2015-2019 and 2012-2018, respectively, the UN...
'Poverty negatively affects structural wiring in children's brains'
The study, indicates a link between both neighborhood and household poverty and the brain’s white matter tracts, which allow for communication between...
India uplifted 271 mn people out of poverty: Sitharaman
In her second Budget presentation, the finance minister said the Budget for 2020-21, is woven around aspirational India, economic development and...
War on poverty akin to battle against cancer, say Nobel Economics...
The war on poverty can not be won in one major battle, but in a series of small triumphs. This was the firm belief of Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo...
World Bank lauds Kenya for reducing poverty rates
World Bank said that poverty rates declined over the period but remain high by the standards of lower middle income countries. Between 2005/06 and...