Many Americans are struggling financially but don't qualify for aid because they technically make above the poverty line.

Governments everywhere are “letting children down instead of lifting them up” as conflict, hunger, poverty and climate change ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights’ thematic report on “Welfare and Control: The Paternalism of Support,” ...

The right to property, as enshrined in international human rights law, must be balanced with the need for restorative justice ...

But there are reasons to be cautious, says human geographer Ola Hall at Lund University in Sweden, who researches the intersection of AI and poverty. AI models have been criticized for being ...

Alkire, the director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), wears her religious beliefs lightly. In her small, functional office in Oxford University’s plant sciences ...

He added, “These are entirely human-made problems ... use a different metric than the federal government to measure poverty, taking into account income, noncash support like tax credits ...

More people than ever are forcibly displaced, face discrimination and unequal access to goods and services, and suffer from the consequences of poverty and war. Human rights violations are widespread ...

PANAMA CITY, February 13th, 2025 – A new World Bank report titled “Panama: From Growth to Prosperity” finds that the quality of jobs and human capital is hampering progress in reducing poverty and ...

Economic Report on Africa. The Challenge of Poverty Reduction and Sustainability. Addis Ababa E/ECA/CM 24/3/99. Etuk ,U and Okwudishu, I.(1998). Ethical condition of human development in 21st Century ...

The Human Opportunity Index (HOI) measures how individual circumstances (i.e., characteristics -- such as place of residence, gender, and education of the household head -- that should not determine ...