To combat poverty and inequality in a sustainable way, policies should focus, alongside strong economic growth and better governance, on investing in people; boosting incomes and opportunities; and ...

It is estimated it would cost $516-million a year to bring every poor person in Manitoba above the poverty line and technically eliminate poverty in this province. This cost represents about 1.1 ...

With strenuous and unified efforts, China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty ... condition not only to reduce poverty in its own country, but also to help other countries to do it ...

Girls can be embarrassed to attend school during their period for fear of being teased, or because other people ... actually you help the whole country lift itself out of poverty.

The world has made tremendous progress in reducing extreme poverty. The percentage of people living in extreme poverty globally fell to a new low ... In half of the countries in the world, extreme ...

Social safety net programmes, such as Open Market Sales (OMS) and Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF), provided less help to the ...

Poverty affects ... have many rich people. The United Nations (UN) is trying to tackle poverty. In the year 2000, they set up eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to fight poverty and improve ...

The next 250-plus pages do exactly that, describing and analyzing the choices that people living on less than $2 a day make ... Yet the value of education, it turns out, is linear—each additional week ...

The North East's first 'multibank' in Middlesbrough handed out more than 200,000 items to 45,000 people ... poverty in the region. Launched in November by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown with ...