The Nation Newspaper Poverty, inequality and the fierce urgency of now. Saturday, June 14, 2025 Advertise With Us E-paper. ... These obscene levels of poverty and inequality demand that urgent, ...

How does poverty differ from economic inequality? Poverty is usually defined as not having the means to support basic nutrition, access to safe drinking water, shelter, education, and other needs.

The Poverty, Inequality, and Human Development Team of the World Bank Research Group conducts rigorous research across a wide range of topics. On the topic of inequality, the team has two main ...

The choice before us isn’t between socialism and capitalism, or tradition and modernity. It’s between fairness and chaos. Between a digital future that empowers, or a digital dystopia that deepens ...

As suffering and poverty have risen, some data show an increase in another extreme: the wealth of billionaires. With both extreme poverty and billionaire wealth on the rise, the pandemic’s effect on ...

Two thirds of the world’s population in extreme poverty live in Sub-Saharan Africa, rising to three quarters when including all fragile and conflict-affected countries. About 72 percent of the world’s ...

Detroit’s billionaire investor and mortgage titan Dan Gilbert told Bloomberg Businessweek recently that he would like to ...

SANDERS: No, I want to -- you know, sometimes these issues, about health care, about income and wealth inequality, are not talked about in the corporate media, and it's time that we did talk about ...

THE latest World Bank report offers a striking picture of India’s progress in alleviating extreme poverty. The rate has fallen to 5.3 per cent in 2022-23, a sharp decline from 27.1 per cent in ...

According to Yilwatda, the government is investing in renewable energy to reduce this gap and lift more Nigerians out of poverty. Of the N450 billion budgeted, N200 billion is allocated to ...

The number of people living in extreme poverty in India has dipped to 75.24 million in FY 2022-23 from 344.47 million in FY 2011-12. Incidentally, Ind ...