The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Kerala govt. has successfully completed the first phase of its poverty eradication programme, with 30,658 families (47.89%) out of 64,006 identified as extremely poor, moving out of extreme poverty. Micro plans were formulated to provide immediate, short-term & long-term needs. Necessities, skill training, cooked meals, housing & medical aid were…

What No One Seems to Know About Coal As advanced nations pursue the glittering dream of transitioning to alternative forms of energy–issuing calls and challenges for the rest of the world to join the parade–the one constant that got us here in the first place has been unfairly slandered and…

BJP's J.P. Nadda also accused the LDF government of being steeped in corruption in various sectors, including education, health, transport, and recruitments.

Households that switch off heating create conditions that could be unhealthy or even fatal, says charity

Three months after a military junta seized power in Niger, overthrowing democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum, the country remains increasingly isolated. Rights groups warn Niger's population of 27 million now face a multitude of crises including insecurity, poverty and loss of personal freedoms.

Almost five billion free or reduced-price school lunches were served to over 30 million public school students during fiscal year 2022.

Letters: Prof Mike Stein on an ‘essentials guarantee’ to lift people out of destitution. Plus letters from Andrew Forsey, Austen Lynch and Alexandra Smithies

An inquiry has opened into an apartment building fire that killed at least 76 people in South Africa in August and laid bare the deep problems of poverty and neglect in parts of Africa’s richest city

The Luma Foundation’s gleaming Gehry-designed arts centre towers over a French city struggling with debt, drugs and poverty – so who really benefits from the city’s resurgence?