The global fight against extreme poverty has stalled for a second consecutive year, according to the 2025 Fordham Pope Francis Global Poverty Report, which tracks access to seven basic human needs ...

“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

Zimbabwe and South Africa have signed a far-reaching social development agreement that places welfare, youth empowerment and ...

Speaking in an interview on Voz do Brasil, in content published by Agência Gov, Dias said Brazil is moving toward "the lowest level of extreme poverty and poverty in all of history" and "the lowest ...

Oxfam condemns "private finance takeover" of development efforts, as over 3.7 billion people remain in poverty ten years after the Sustainable Development Goals were agreed. New Oxfam analysis unveils ...

Eleni Abraham Yitbarek is affiliated with Partnership for Economic Policy (Research Fellow) Kehinde Oluwaseun Omotoso is affiliated with DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Social Policy, College of Graduate ...

In the 1960s, policy shifted from calling for the redistribution of wealth to enforcing an ideology of personal responsibility. “The critical edge of 1963 was blunted in the legislation of 1964, as ...

The people of Karamoja and West Nile sub-regions have presented several demands to political leaders ahead of the 2026 general elections, focusing on inclusive growth, environmental stewardship, and ...

Let me start by extending our warmest greetings to Secretary Arsi Balisacan, NEDA Secretary; to our distinguished panelists, to the Representatives from the private sector, civil society, the academe ...

Global inequality stems not just from what people have and don’t have—but what they're able to do with what they have. “The levels of inequality are horrendous," said Janet Fuentes, an activist from ...