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More women entrepreneurs mean less global poverty

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

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Blockchain’s potential extends to poverty busting

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

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What really works to reduce poverty

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

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Where did India’s millions of working women go?

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.

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Empowering women to choose weaving over illegal work

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

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The simple technology helping women escape poverty

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

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Welfare saved my life. If payments are raised to the poverty line more Australians will survive

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

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‘Lives will be lost’ if benefits and wages do not rise in line with inflation

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

The Independent UK

Labour MP blasts protests as 'utterly sickening' after demonstrators pour milk onto floor of Manchester Marks and Spencer

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

Manchester Evening News

Social grants offer cash, but they aren't a magic bullet response to inequality in the global south

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 Conversation

In-work poverty two-thirds higher for Scottish women, ONS statistics reveal

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

The National (Scotland)

Period poverty fear as 'sneaky' price hike raises cost of sanitary pads and tampons

A Sunday Mirror End Period Poverty campaign investigation finds that big-name brands cost more per tampon than just a few weeks ago

Daily Mirror

World Bank says Ukraine has tenfold increase in poverty due to war

Russia's attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukrainian cities away from the front lines will complicate the dire economic situation facing the country, which has already seen a tenfold increase in poverty this year, a top World Bank official said on Saturday.

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Children’s health chief calls for free school meals for all to end ‘disturbing’ food poverty

Feed the Future: ‘Children with iron deficiency anaemia is just the start,’ warns Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health president Camilla Kingdon

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DWP shares measures in place to help prevent older people living in poverty during later life

The Pensions Minister highlights Pension Credit and mid-life MOTs for over 40.

Los Angeles Times

Broadband internet isn't equally available to LA County's low-income residents, report says

The pandemic proved how crucial it is to be connected to the internet.

Liverpool Echo

Ian Byrne's full response as he faces fight to retain MP seat

Labour MP cites work on food poverty and Hillsborough Law as he urges supporters to back him in selection battle

The Guardian - AU

Morning mail: flood evacuation warnings in three states, 3.3 million in poverty, EV sales rise

Friday: Towns worked to evacuate livestock and dig trenches as rivers burst, with some areas facing the worst flooding in almost 50 years. Plus: what can single people do to celebrate their lives

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Stage-three tax cuts condemned as ‘unconscionable’ as Acoss report shows extent of poverty

Advocates say it should be a ‘source of great shame’ that one in eight people live in poverty in such a wealthy country

The Independent UK

‘Liz Truss must act’: Politicians from all parties back our campaign to expand free school meals

Feed the Future: Figures from across Westminster say the case for widening support is clear and urgent

Evening Standard

MPs unite: Give free school meals to all pupils in poverty

Ex-Minister Michael Gove leads senior Tories calling for a rethink. Adam Forrest reports

The Guardian - UK

‘Time may be running out’: global debt crisis reaches critical point

Eclipsed by rich countries’ own problems, a crunch a decade in the making is coming to a head

Daily Record

Rangers and Liverpool fans unite to deliver food bank goods to needy families

Fans Supporting Foodbanks and trade union Unite organised the donations to help support city residents suffering food poverty.

The Guardian - AU

‘Lula represents hope’: Brazil presidential frontrunner takes his message into Rio’s favelas

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promises to give far-right rival Jair Bolsonaro a ‘thrashing’ in tighter-than-expected presidential race

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Labor's new plan to slash consultancy bill

The finance minister has outlined a new plan to cut back on consultancy fees while the treasurer has promised to leave controversial stage three tax cuts alone.

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