Researchers looked at whether a tried-and-true poverty alleviation effort that gives cash and coaching to households, and is ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president on Monday suspended the country’s minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation over the use of a private bank account for ministry financial ...

The 98.99 million people who remained under the threshold in 2012 were lifted out of poverty, with many moving well above the ...

Indonesia’s Coordinating Ministry for Community Empowerment is expanding programs to support micro, small and medium ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Government has approved development projects valued at Rs. 23 billion under the “Prajashakthi” national poverty ...

COLOMBO, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka has approved development projects worth 23 billion rupees (about 71.4 million U.S. dollars) under a national rural poverty alleviation program, the President's ...

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya — Gov. Jose Gambito said the Provincial Local Poverty Reduction Action Plan (LPRAP) is being ...