A gap in the book is the lack of consideration given to local methods of trying to tackle poverty. Fintech need not necessarily be tied to Western poverty finance policy. An example is rotating saving ...

Eti Best Herbert, Omolara Olateju Odeniyi, Impact of World Bank-Assisted Projects on Poverty Alleviation, Consilience, No. 25 (2021-22), pp. 1-26 ... Striking a better balance: Volume 1. The World ...

William D. Sunderlin ¹², Sonya Dewi ³, Atie Puntodewo ², Daniel Müller ⁴⁵, Arild Angelsen ²⁶, Michael Epprecht ⁷, Why Forests Are Important for Global Poverty Alleviation, Ecology and Society, Vol. 13 ...

People wait in line at the Fred Jordan Mission annual back-to-school giveaway of shoes, clothing and backpacks for 3,000 homeless and underprivileged children in Los Angeles, Calif., October 4, 2018.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has published an LSE review of material deprivation, one of the official measures of poverty in the UK. In contrast to income-based measures which assess ...

One critical question raised in the context of poverty alleviation in Bangladesh is whether poverty reduction spendings have made any dent on poverty in the country. Sometimes, we generalise the ...

Director Monica Strømdahl’s “Flophouse America” provides a visceral documentation of poverty in America. Flophouses are cheap, run-down motels where many people are forced to live when they ...

Zamfara State, with an 82 per cent poor population, spent only N1.3m on poverty alleviation programmes, despite getting N52.8bn in grants alone during the period under review. For Yobe State ...