Nigeria's 2026 poverty alleviation budget is less than 1% of total spending, raising concerns as poverty is projected to rise ...

As a new affordable housing project finally gets under way in Jefferson City, advocates say there's plenty more work to come. Stronghold Landing, a 40-unit project in the works at 5011 Old Lohman Road ...

Poverty isn’t just a statistic, but a complicated web of challenges encountered by millions worldwide. Yet, it’s often ...

The Poverty, Inequality and Human Development team conducts research across a wide range of topics that broadly covers issues related to improving the wellbeing of people, particularly less well-off ...

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 ...

Official surveys of household income and expenditure in Nigeria point to a rising tide of poverty and privation, especially for women. The recently released Nigeria General Household Survey-Panel ...

(Beirut) – The majority of people in Lebanon are unable to secure their social and economic rights amid a deepening economic crisis, with low-income households bearing the brunt, Human Rights Watch ...

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor ...