SAN DIEGO — A nonprofit that started here in San Diego, helping people on the other side of the world, has grown tremendously since its start in 1987. In fact, Village Enterprise is leading the ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

As Nigeria battles with escalating number of people living in extreme poverty, policy and development experts are proffering solutions on how to tackle rural poverty. In this interview with Victor ...

According to the 2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), 75.6 per cent of Cross River's population (about 3.44 million people) are living in ...

Poverty in South Africa remains a significant and persistent challenge despite efforts and progress in decreasing it over the last two decades. This was revealed in the latest report by Statistics ...

The World Bank has raised a fresh concern over the rising poverty in Nigeria, saying that a staggering 75.5 per cent of rural dwellers live below the poverty line.The World Bank stated this in its ...

Can chickens change the world? Bill Gates thinks so. Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates speaks to the media, in front of a chicken coop set up on the 68th floor of the 4 ...

When most people hear the word poverty, they think of empty pockets, begging on the streets, or . However, poverty is much deeper than just not having money. It can affect your access to education, ...

This Economic Issue is based on IMF Working Paper 00/78 "Rural Poverty in Developing Countries: Issues and Policies." Citations for the research referred to in this shortened version are provided in ...