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THE INDEPENDENT DEBATE: Labour’s reforms to benefits aim to reduce economic inactivity and encourage work, but critics warn they could push vulnerable people further into poverty

Nigeria has abundant human and natural resources but remains mired in underdevelopment. There are high levels of poverty, corruption, unemployment and inequality. The country is currently witnessing a rise in ethnic militias and terrorism, adding to the threats posed by armed herdsmen’s deadly clashes with rural communities over land.

Campaigners urge Ofgem to refund UK households after energy network companies ‘profit from high inflation’

OKAY, Starmer, what have you got for us today? The benefits system is the “worst of all worlds”?

Kevin Fagan, who spent decades at the San Francisco Chronicle, argues in a new book that ‘atrociously unforgivable’ US poverty must be addressed

Myanmar has struggled with civil war, military rule and widespread poverty for much of the past seven decades. But the country’s youth have never faced threats to their survival and future as severe as today.

Over the past week, Panama's government has released dozens of migrants from around the world who were deported from the U.S. The migrants fled conflict, religious persecution, poverty and government crackdowns in countries such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Cameroon, China, Pakistan and Iran

First such study finds laws on abortion, debt and dress help increase rate of women being jailed twice as fast as for men

Over the past two years, there has been some progress in improving the JobSeeker payment. But payment levels remain below the poverty line.