Efforts to combat global poverty remain unchanged in part because of severe cutbacks in American international aid, ...

While affluent nations step back from humanitarian relief and economic development assistance, the world is on the verge of ...

The International Poverty Forum (IPF), powered by Caring for Others, is mobilizing emergency relief for the people of Jamaica ...

Five years ago, around 650 million people lived in poverty across the globe. Today, that number has climbed to more than 800 million. In other words, one out of every ten people on Earth still ...

Siddharth Chatterjee, United Nations resident coordinator in China, noted that "China's modernization journey offers a ...

Billions of dollars in foreign aid could be spent more effectively if international poverty statistics were more accurate, according to new research led by King's College London. Dr Michail Moatsos, a ...

The history of capitalism, as portrayed in academia and among much of the media, is a sad story. It’s one of smokestacks, sweatshops, child labor, robber barons, social stratification and general ...

Girls are brilliant, creative, powerful and strong. We are world change-makers. There are 600 million girls in the world today and nearly 4 billion women. Together, we make up almost half of the world ...

When discussing globalization, advocates of the free economy usually start by stressing the large number of people who have risen out of extreme poverty in the last three decades. This period of ...

Jo Luck, the former CEO and president of Heifer International -- a Little Rock-based nonprofit dedicated to combating hunger ...