In 1988 President Ronald Reagan argued that “the federal government declared a war on poverty, and poverty won”. Thomas Sowell, a 95-year-old economist at the Hoover Institution and social-media ...

“Joining the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty reflects GAIN’s commitment to collective action. In the current ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Efforts to combat child poverty in New York intensified as the Child Poverty Reduction Advisory Council (CPRAC) issued its final report, calling for targeted policies to cut ...

In September 2024, an article in The Economist posed a provocative question: Can evidence-based development programs, like those championed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo, scale ...

This paper presents the last six borrowing agreements that were concluded between October 2023 and February 2024 to provide new loan resources to the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT) as part ...

Official figures going back to 2018 are set to take billions in under-reported benefits income into account.

From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those who felt victimized and those who felt blessed. Where victims and critics developed analyses, demands, ...

Georgia state Rep. Teddy Reese, a Democrat in District 140, has been tasked with leading a new Columbus initiative with a lofty goal: reduce the local poverty rate by 50% in the next decade. The state ...

The Child Poverty Reduction Advisory Council has laid out a road map. One of their top recommendations: a further expansion of the Empire State Child Credit. Credit: Getty Images. This year’s state ...

(Reuters) -Pakistan’s sharp decline in poverty has stalled in recent years due to economic shocks and a lack of structural reforms, the World Bank said on Tuesday. The international lender said that ...