Executive Directors welcomed the opportunity to consider the proposed reform of the Fund’s policy on poverty reduction strategies (PRS) in Fund engagement with low-income countries. They concurred ...

This Joint Staff Advisory Note (JSAN) reviews the first Annual Progress Report (APR) on Somalia’s Ninth National Development Plan (NDP9). NDP9 is a nationally owned and comprehensive strategy for ...

The World Bank Group has set a clear mission: ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward these ...

China has successfully lifted 7.1 million rural residents with disabilities out of poverty and has integrated disability inclusion into its national development strategy, said Cheng Kai, chairman of ...

Social integration and poverty reduction require more, and better, jobs for the world’s poor The idea that creating more and better jobs is the best way to eradicate poverty may sound like a platitude ...

While many of us are starting fresh with New Year’s resolutions, it's important to remember that for many, just surviving another day is a struggle. Poverty isn’t just about a lack of income — it's a ...

The government has published a child-friendly version of its poverty strategy. Education secretary Bridget Phillipson explains why.

A new long-awaited child poverty strategy is promising to lift half a million children out of poverty by the end of this parliament - but critics have branded it unambitious. The headline announcement ...

17 October 2022 - A flagship UN poverty study released on Monday, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty finds that significant poverty reduction is possible, and new ways of calculating ...

By Abdul-Mansuur IBRAHIMWith more than twenty percent of the country’s population living in poverty, the government of Ghana clearly faces an enormous challenge to reduce poverty – especially in the ...

Gender differences in poverty rates in the United States may be associated with women’s differing circumstances — ...

Child poverty has been a sticking point for Labour, especially after the government chose to extend the Tory policy of introducing the two-child benefit cap last July. Considering there are 4.5 ...