Researchers looked at whether a tried-and-true poverty alleviation effort that gives cash and coaching to households, and is ...

Indonesia’s Coordinating Ministry for Community Empowerment is expanding programs to support micro, small and medium ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president on Monday suspended the country’s minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation over the use of a private bank account for ministry financial ...

COLOMBO, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka has approved development projects worth 23 billion rupees (about 71.4 million U.S. dollars) under a national rural poverty alleviation program, the President's ...

Cash transfer programmes have emerged as a cornerstone of social protection strategies aimed at reducing poverty and promoting human development across low- and middle-income countries. Broadly ...

Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University–led study. Based on household surveys in ...

The Government has approved development projects valued at Rs. 23 billion under the “Prajashakthi” national poverty ...

Ensuring that poverty-alleviation initiatives reach those most in need has been slow and difficult in most developing countries. But if governments make the most of existing data and systems, carry ...

BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A total of 832 counties, 128,000 villages and nearly 100 million people were living in poverty. This was the reality that China had to face. The task of providing support to ...

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya — Gov. Jose Gambito said the Provincial Local Poverty Reduction Action Plan (LPRAP) is being ...

ISLAMABAD, 28 March 2018: The UN refugee agency and the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) launched Wednesday a pilot programme to help provide sustainable livelihood opportunities to both ...