This brief article is a continuation of our profound evaluation of the weakest economic conditions in the world. If you want to see which countries’ financial conditions are stretched thin and why, ...

It is widely believed that China's socialist economy had relatively high rates of extreme poverty, while the capitalist reforms of the 1980s and 1990s delivered rapid progress, with extreme poverty ...

A new study exploring the effects of international student mobility has found that foreign-educated graduates reduce extreme poverty in low and middle-income countries. The paper, published in the ...

PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- A new study from NWEA, the not-for-profit provider of assessment solutions, reveals fresh insights into the relationship between school poverty and ...

With a poverty rate of 58.9%, a majority of Eswatini’s population lives below the poverty line primarily because of the population’s immense dependence on agriculture and a glaring lack of quality ...

Well, that was nice while it lasted. For six months we seemed to be making real progress against childhood poverty. The progress came as a consequence of a national emergency, the COVID-19 pandemic.

Disrupting poverty: How Barefoot College is empowering women through peer-to-peer learning and technology This article was taken from the April 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired ...

They are parents like Kaneadsha Jones of Ohio, a mother of three. She struggled before the pandemic. But with an autistic child she couldn’t leave alone when schools shut down, she had to quit her job ...

The federal poverty line strictly looks at monetary income to determine who is impoverished. Next City's coverage of economic hardship, however, focuses on concrete ways to achieve greater economic ...

Higher cigarette prices would save millions of people from extreme poverty and poor health around the world, while also cutting health treatment costs for families across the globe, suggests a ...