But the overarching objective is to boost incomes and improve the welfare of workers at the low end of the ladder, while also reducing inequality and promoting ... policy effort toward significant ...

Environmental footprints of cities are quite alarming and can threaten the natural resources required to sustain the economic development and poverty alleviation rates. Maintaining economic growth, ...

If you've ever looked at a rainbow, it looks like a sideways bow. Now although the meaning of rainbow has changed in our modern culture, in the Bible, symbolizes God's promise to never flood the earth ...

Despite this progress on fiscal reform, three major challenges remain: 1) a volatile macroeconomic environment; 2) still insufficient fiscal resources; and 3) high levels of poverty and inequality ...

A United Nations rapporteur on extreme poverty, visiting in 2017, said that the sewage problem was unlike anything else he had encountered in the developed world. “This is not a sight that one ...

Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024, 8.5% of the global population was living in extreme poverty (that is, on less than $2.15 a day). Nearly 67% of these ...

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Graphology is sometimes considered to be a pseudoscience, meaning something that claims to be based in fact but isn’t actually. But the graphologists who spoke to HuffPost disagree with that ...

Castro hailed the survey results, recognizing the positive impact of the administration’s targeted programs aimed at poverty alleviation. In addition to the decline in self-rated poverty, the survey ...

If he’d never given away a dime or sold a share of the software giant, Gates would have nearly 10 times more to give away. On Thursday, Bill Gates publicly reiterated that he’ll give away ...

Conclusions: Cities with high income inequality and poverty are so far unable to reduce their mortality through local expenditures on public goods, regardless of the mayoral party. Longitudinal data ...