Closing the season, the Nobel economics prize is handed out on Monday with specialists on credit, the role of government, and ...

Scotland's First Minister, John Swinney, says increasing investment in Scotland could help combat child poverty. He was ...

Croatia is transforming its poverty measurement system by shifting from traditional surveys to a sophisticated register-based ...

The World Bank's 2024 report on Somalia highlights persistent poverty, worsened by climatic shocks, with 54% of the ...

Argentina's deepening economic crisis is driving millions into poverty, with the latest government data revealing a stark ...

Claudia Sheinbaum has vowed to continue the social policies of her predecessor and mentor Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Since taking over as First Minister from Humza Yousaf this year, Mr Swinney has pledged to tackle the country’s stubborn ...

Federal estimates suggest 11.2% of Rhode Islanders live in poverty. But the true number of residents unable to afford basic ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A Robinson received the Nobel Prize in Economics for studying how institutions shape ...

Unemployment and poverty are up and incomes are down among Maui wildfire survivors more than a year after a deadly blaze ...

However, an alternative way to measure poverty ticked up, as more people in the U.S. faced economic hardship. The Conversation U.S. asked Mark Rank, a sociologist who researches poverty and ...

Bush argued that the West had a moral responsibility to help the poor escape from poverty. There was no reason to wait for sluggish economic growth to do the job. By 2005 the world’s poorest 72 ...