The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Entrepreneurship is an engine of economic growth but it can only move into top gear when there are more women.

The technology can help circumvent traditional barriers to women’s empowerment.

Understanding why some poverty reduction programmes work and others don’t calls for a better understanding of the people involved.

Nearly 40 million women have left the workforce in India since the turn of the millennium despite an economic boom. Now, there’s a window to reverse the trend.

Traditional weaving can be an escape from extreme poverty in rural Indonesia, but it doesn’t work for everyone.

A formal identity and a mobile phone are two key weapons in the global fight against poverty.

When I received the disability support pension, for the first time in years I had my head above water. I was part of society again

The most vulnerable are “paying the price” of world events, Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, will say.

'In a cost of living crisis where food poverty and foodbank use is rising, it’s also utterly sickening'

Over the last three decades, there has been a proliferation of social protection programmes across the global south in what some have dubbed a development revolution. International development agencies across the ideological spectrum have embraced social protection as an effective and efficient instrument to reduce poverty and inequality.

THE number of women relying on Universal Credit while in employment is nearly two-thirds higher than for men, the Sunday National can reveal.