IN NAIROBI, a motorbike taxi driver who spent months hiding from his landlord during the covid-19 lockdown will be back on the road in 2022 and beginning to repay his debt. A farmer in rural Zambia ...

Development practitioners, academics, and policy makers have long sought to better understand and effectively address poverty. It is widely acknowledged today that poverty is more complex than lack of ...

[00:00] - Those at the bottom of the income distribution, the poorest and the most vulnerable, have to be also more proactively engaged in that process of economic growth and benefiting from it. - ...

16 October 2023 – Every year on 17 October, the world marks the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, also known as End Poverty Day. This year the day’s theme puts a spotlight on decent ...

Some really interesting results from a new NBER working paper “Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income,” by Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin (Columbia University): Abstract ...

UNICEF works with governments and other partners to address the impacts of poverty on children and to mitigate poverty-related risks to their health, education and well-being. A look at recent and ...

Posters featuring portraits of several world leaders line a road in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 20, 2025, ahead of the G20 summit to be held there. Credit: AP foto/Themba Hadebe ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover real estate, economics and cost of living. The Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction industry employs nearly a ...

Do you like to time travel as much as I do? If you’re reading this letter, a form of time travel in its own right, I expect you do. My current favorite way to visit ...

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