The goals are as ambitious as they are ill defined. In Japan, the government has portrayed both its poverty alleviation efforts and its highly contentious whaling program as examples of its ...

Japan’s overall child poverty rate is above the OECD average, and nearly half of the 1.4 million single-parent households live below the poverty line despite around 85 percent of such parents ...

Japan’s poverty line survey conducted in 2019 determined that a minimum annual income of approximately $10,000 is needed to purchase daily essentials. However, seniors over 65 receive an annual ...

a failure to build upon programs aimed at poverty alleviation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this increase in poverty under the supplemental poverty measure is reversible if ...

The Coalition is uniquely put together and able to combine forces of humanitarian and development actors with complementary expertise: Members with proven technical experience in poverty alleviation ...

In other words, is venture creation a viable poverty alleviation tool? My work has shown that it can be -- with the right kind of support. However, that support is often lacking. A big part of the ...

Japan's "employment ice age generation," now in their 40s to 50s, faces an increasing risk of being in poverty when they are older even if they fully receive basic pension benefits. Due to low ...

"So you can see how cash support — or poverty alleviation, more generally — can work at every single step of the way, from exposure to TB outcomes," Richterman says. And there may be something ...