Cash transfer programmes have emerged as a cornerstone of social protection strategies aimed at reducing poverty and promoting human development across low- and middle-income countries. Broadly ...

Ensuring that poverty-alleviation initiatives reach those most in need has been slow and difficult in most developing countries. But if governments make the most of existing data and systems, carry ...

Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University–led study. Based on household surveys in ...

Fadumo Abdi Sheikh and her children lost everything about a decade ago when famine and drought forced them to leave their village in Somalia and flee to the city of Baidoa. The family struggled to get ...

Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University-led study. Based on household surveys in ...

MALIPO, China — The rural villages of Malipo are a world away from gleaming Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai, reached by narrow roads that sometimes skirt dangerously close to deep ravines.

Earlier this month, Sri Lankan President Anura Dissanayake and Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya ceremoniously unveiled their government’s Prajashakthi (Community Power) policy, declaring it would ...