Eritrea ranks 29th among the countries with the widest gap between rich and poor. Thailand has a high rate of income ...

Madagascar, one of the world’s poorest countries, was hit with a rate of 47 per cent. Read more at straitstimes.com.

says a new World Bank report called Expanding Opportunities for the Urban Poor. East Asia and the Pacific is the world’s most rapidly urbanizing region, with an average annual urbanization rate of 3 ...

Previous strategies had met with little success in Latin America and Africa, and poverty was on the rebound in East Asia after ... by the countries themselves—rather than imposed from the outside—and ...