Poverty

Claiming that social business can bring millions of people out of poverty, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today said poverty is created due to a wrong economic system.  “We are aware that poverty is not created by...

Poverty in Argentina rose to affect over 52 percent of the population in the first six months of self-declared “anarcho-capitalist” Javier Milei’s presidency, according to official data released Thursday. The report for the first half of...

According to the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (Sanem), the twin shocks of the coronavirus epidemic and price spiral have caused food security to diminish, inequality to increase, and poverty to rise in Bangladesh over...

According to the United Nations, 165 million people have fallen into poverty since 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the cost-of-living issue, and the war in Ukraine. The organization is calling for a halt...

The number of Afghans in poverty nearly doubled to 34 million as the nation was racked by the collapse of the US-backed government and the Taliban takeover, the United Nations said Tuesday. Vast foreign subsidies were...

Egypt’s public unhappiness has been rising for months due to a severe currency shortage and skyrocketing food costs. But for many, a state agency’s advice on how to save money was the tipping point. Families have...

One-third of the population of the Arab region, excluding the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Libya, suffers from poverty, according to a poll released by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for...

The UN children’s agency said Monday that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting economic fallout have thrown four million children into poverty across eastern Europe and Central Asia. “Children are bearing the heaviest burden of...

Dr. Atonu Rabbani has been named the inaugural ‘Mushtaque Chowdhury Professor of Health and Poverty’ by BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, with effect from September 1, 2021. This prestigious chair was...

A three-day-long Art Camp and dissemination session held in Bangladesh to recognize the findings of a research program titled “The Hidden Dimensions of Poverty“. Mati Bangladesh NGO Organized the program in Huzurikanda, Sherpur from March 7-9...