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The article discusses how the U.S. federal government can address the problem of poverty in the country. It commends government programmes for helping poor people in the country. The problem has been attributed to the lack of intervention. According to statistics, 40 million people are poor in 2017 and a fifth of children remain poor after government benefits.

The article discusses the impact of misfiring environmentalism in the context of climate change and its potential harm to the world's poor particularly in developing countries. Topics include the challenges of funding green development projects, the impact of global warming on vulnerable communities and the trade-offs between economic development and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The article reports that household incomes are growing again in the U.S. after a lengthy period of stagnation. It mentions that the low-income Americans appear to have fared the best in the upside-down post-pandemic period, in addition, shifts in taxation have failed to keep up with the explosive growth in incomes for America's wealthiest.

The article focuses on the rationalness of being thin. It mentions that there is typically a gently downward sloping relationship between most measures of weight, like body mass index (BMI), a measure of obesity, or the share of a population that is obese, and income, as measured by wages, the share of people below a poverty line or their income quartile.

The article discusses how the pursuit of leisure drives internet use in the poor world. Topics discussed include connectivity in the poor world, growth of internet use in India, timepass as the essence of the internet, the use of the Internet in work and crucial aspects of understanding the second half of internet users.

The article examines how a deal struck in the dying days of apartheid afflicts modern Zululand, South Africa. It mentions the decision could change the lives of some of South Africa's poorest people for the better if the judges disagree with the trust when they return a verdict early in 2021. It mentions Ingonyama Trust Act was enacted before the election in April1994 that brought apartheid to a close and Nelson Mandela to power.

The article reports that Somalia lurched between disorder and anarchy as the government controls only bits of the country and the rest is in the hands of jihadists adept at blowing themselves up in crowded places. Topics include considered that for many Somalis life is poor, brutish and short as they live in the world's fifth poorest and eighth most violent country.

The article informs on in different ways rich and poor are fending for themselves in South Africa. It mentions that police cannot control the crime and the community is angry, diepsloot has the fourth-highest rate of violent assault of any police precinct in the country, and addiction to nyaope- a mix of cheap heroin, cannabis, antiretroviral drugs and dilutants-is common.

The article focuses on a scheme developed by the Congress party of India known by its Hindi acronym NYAY under which it will hand out 6,000 rupees to poor households in the country if it wins power in the 2019 national election. Topics covered include action taken by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to address rural resentment, failure of the government to identify the poor and possibility for NYAY to become a reality in line with the electoral prospects of Congress.

The article reflects on what the ancient practice of gleaning can bring to the modern world. Topics discussed include the rights of the poor to glean, rules for gleaning, gleaning as a significant part of the income of peasants and villagers, the Maynards Fruit Farm, in East Sussex, England that has invited the Sussex branch of Britain's Feedback Gleaning Network, to pick what is left of the rhubarb crop, and the scale of the practice changing and the philosophy remaining the same.

The article highlights the results of economic research on South African inequality from 1993 to 2019 published by academics Aroop Chatterjee, Léo Czajka and Amory Gethin in 2021. There was an increase in the percentage of income of the top 10% of earners while the average income of the poorest declined by more than 30% after inflation. It cites the effect of value-added tax on poor people. Also noted is attribution of the narrowing of racial income gap to the African elite.

The article discusses Black Americans are spending more of the day being kept waiting according to analysis of Bureau of Labour Statistics. It mentions poorer people have to wait longer for basic services; and low-income neighbourhoods often have fewer shops and medical centres; and the worse-off claim unemployment benefits or food stamps, means interacting with government administration.

The article offers information on a luxurious jet for Mexico president, Enrique Pena Nieto, that symbolized an out-of-touch government in a country with lots of poor people. Topics include reports that sellers rarely recover fitting costs because new owners have their own ideas about colour schemes and comfy seats; and considered that National Lottery which is heavily indebted and lost money in seven of the past ten years is managing the raffle.

The article discusses the economic impact of COVID-19 transmission particularly on the poor people in the U.S. as of July 2020. Topics covered include the state of poverty according to economists from the University of Chicago in Illinois and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana from April to May 2020, impact of the government-provided stimulus on the poor, and the state of unemployment.

The article discusses the Asian rice industry in relation to the author's claim that governments in places such as Indonesia cause their own citizens to become poorer by interfering in the rice market as of 2015. According to the article, the wholesale cost of rice is higher in Indonesia than Cambodia due to Indonesia's role as a net importer of rice and Cambodia's ability to grow more rice than the nation needs. Transportation costs, import subsidies, and tariffs are also examined.

The article focuses on a study conducted by Raj Chetty and his co-authors, which reveals that the absolute mobility (the chance that a child will go on to earn more than their parents) has dropped. It mentions that the gap in life-expectancy between rich and poor has widened even as that between Blacks and whites has narrowed down. It mentions that ultimate drivers concerning mobility could lie in family structure, parenting habits, exposure to crime.

The article focuses on several aspects of funding schools that expel pregnant school girls in Tanzania. It mentions that the World Bank has delayed issuing the loan in January 2020 and the controversy illustrates a quandary often faced by donors trying to help poor people ruled by unpleasant governments. It also mentions that the World Bank withheld a loan in 2018 that was intended to fund secondary education in Tanzania.

The article offers information on voting trend in Africa. It mentions that ruling parties find it easier to corral old, poor and rural voters, as compared to young and rich vote. It also mentions that Kimuli Kasara of Columbia University and Pavithra Suryanarayan of Johns Hopkins University, who surveyed voting patterns in poor countries, many of them in Africa, found that the poorest fifth of citizens tended to vote more assiduously than the richest fifth.

The article discusses how the poor are being victimized by digital financial services. Topics covered include role of financial services accessibility in the misuse and theft of personal data, susceptibility to fraud of poor people, according to a report by the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, examples of scams targeting the poor and how the implicit sale of data in financial services undermine the privacy of the poor.

The article explores the transfer of the concentration of poor people in the suburbs in the U.S. It attributes the changing geography of poverty to the declining median household income and the mismanagement of city finances. The effect of increasing housing costs and income inequality on the condition of poor people is discussed, as well as the rising number of poor children in cities across the country.

The article considers the challenges of persuading poor farmers to buy insurance in Zambia and India. Topics discussed include the poor farmers' access to financial services, on how technology and new ideas can bring insurance to poor people around the world, and the results of a survey which show that mobile phone adoption outpaced both financial inclusion and insurance coverage.

Liberalism has brought sharp reductions in both poverty and international inequality. The past half-century can be seen as a long exploration of the power of liberal trade to raise living standards, not only in the rich world but among the poor too. The story begins with the growth that took place in western Europe, North America, Australasia and Japan once the two great scourges of economic activity--war and trade restrictions--were removed after 1945. The rest of the world--communist, socialist, or just plain poor--also grew, but more slowly: at 2.2% a year on average, or a threefold rise in income per head. Thus the gap between "the West and the rest", as Angus Maddison, an economic historian, described it in an OECD report in 2002 from which these figures are taken, has been widening. Though it does little to promote democracy, China is proving a spur to economic liberalization in other developing countries: fear that its growth will steal their markets or investment is prompting others to copy its reforms and to adopt international trade rules by joining the World Trade Organization.

The article explores how the Covid-19 crisis crated consequences that lead to financial crisis, and surges in poverty and the newly unemployed. Topics include disturbing trends as financial balance-sheet crisis is across a broad swathe of countries, and financial fallout from the pandemic by region or income status; and financial institutions are facing a marked rise in non-performing loans (NPLS), with banking crises that emerge after expansion in economic activity.

The article focuses on the widening gap between rich and poor Chinese regions. Topics discussed include the challenge of closing the gap between inland China and its coast, economic conditions of China's south coastal region, China's wealthiest, the north-east that has been burdened by a legacy of state ownership and a rise in fiscal deficits.

The article argues that China should focus on helping people, not building more infrastructure, if it wants to help its backward interior regions. Topics discussed include suggestions for China to invest in hospitals, schools and job trainings, allow workers to move freely by abolishing the "hukou" system that restricts migrants' access to public services outside their home towns and outlook for China.

The article discusses the move by African countries to improve their welfare state schemes. Some governments have developed their social safety-nets to expand the number of people covered by their welfare programmes. The effect of welfare state schemes on poor Africans' expectations of their governments is discussed, as well as the challenge of removing the schemes in the future.

The article focuses on Nayib Bukele, a charismatic populist who promises change to El Salvador as president . Topics discussed include details on the unorthodox rise of Bukele, his pledge to refurbish historical centres in 50 towns across the country, new ideas to "dismantle the neoliberal model" and lift the poor, El Salvador as Latin America's most violent country after Venezuela and Bukele's desire for a Salvadoran version of the graft-busting commission under attack in Guatemala.

The article explores the high poverty rate in California despite its developed economy. According to statistics, California has 7.4 million poor people based on the official poverty line. The impact of the high number of undocumented immigrants on the economy of California is discussed, as well as the success of the state's high technology industry and the motion picture industry.

The article looks at the plight of poor Americans as of November 2012, in the aftermath of the 2012 U.S. presidential election. It notes the U.S. poverty rate has risen in recent years, and that poverty is not prominent on U.S. politicians' agenda as it was under U.S. President Lyndon Johnson. Factors including the changing nature of jobs, stagnant wages, and a high rate of incarceration are cited.

The article focuses on the conditions for the poor in Bangladesh in 2012. Topics include the economic conditions within Bangladesh in 2012, the contraction of private sector, and the improvement of health care and education in the country. Information is provided on the child and maternal mortality rate and the impact of family planning on the stability of women.

The article discusses the level of poverty throughout Egypt and the lack of the poor's complaints about it. While the rich get richer and the middle class is expanding, the rest have struggled with the inflation rate that is higher than in most comparable countries, according to the article. It is suggested by sociologists that poor Egyptians have appropriated the things they lack such as space and freedom. Why the poor don't complain because of security agencies and the mafia are discussed.

The article details conditions in two sprawling slums in different parts of the world, the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, and the Dharavi slum in Mumbai, India. In both places, inhabitants are packed together in primitive shacks with almost no utilities, and trash and human waste are everywhere. Despite this, the residents of both slums, most of whom migrated from jobless rural areas, seem almost content. Governments largely ignore the slums, and obstacles to improving them are discussed.

The article discusses the method employed by the U.S. federal government in measuring poverty. It identifies the problems present by the country's antiquated poverty line, including the calculation of income before taxes and transfers. The supplemental poverty measure (SPM) is criticized for taking benefits and cost of living into account.

The article reports on the increase in number of people who were classified as poor in Egypt despite the mission of the Egyptian government to halve poverty by 2020 and eliminate it by 2030. Topics covered include official poverty line set by the Egyptian government, economic reforms introduced by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi with loans provided by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), how reforms led to increase in household expenditures and the limited cash-transfer schemes for the poor.

The article offers a firsthand look at the town of Lundazi in Zambia. The people here are so poor that all road signs are deliberately perforated, for otherwise they would soon be removed and turned into pots and pans. In the past, farming was almost entirely a subsistence affair with little grown except for maize. Now, though, there is evidence of cash crops. Basic tuition at the town's school is provided free, but the fees for boarding and any extra lessons come to nearly $200 a year. For most families, that is a fortune. Over 120 of the 864 students have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS.

The article reflects on and compares relative poverty in Kentucky and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Why juxtapose the lives of a poor man in a rich country and a relatively well-off man in a poor one? First, it puts the rich world's wealth into context. A Congolese doctor, a man most other Congolese would consider wealthy, is worse off materially than most poor people in America. What is the relationship between wealth and happiness? And what is the significance of relative poverty? "Poverty" describes two quite different phenomena: utter penury, of the sort experienced by the billion or so souls who subsist on $1 a day or less; and the situation of people in rich countries who are less well off than their compatriots. American poverty statistics are misleading. Poor people today live longer, spend longer in education and are more likely to have jobs. If poor Americans were to compare their standard of living with what is normal elsewhere in the world, let alone in Congo, they would see they have little cause for discontent.

The article focuses on the financial services offered to the poor of developing countries. Financial services for poor people in developing countries--a business known as "microfinance"--have mostly been awful or absent. The poor have been hurt by massive market and regulatory failure. In recent years, at least in some parts of the world, this bleak picture has begun to change, first in credit, then in savings and more recently in remittances. A World Bank report by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Soledad Martinez shows a correlation between lack of financial access and low incomes. A World Bank report by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Soledad Martinez published last month shows a strong correlation between lack of financial access and low incomes. The poor attach great value to having a safe place to keep money and some means of providing for life's risks, either through savings or, better still, through insurance.

The article reports on how The Indian Ocean region is struggling to recover from the aftermath of the biggest earthquake seen for 40 years. The victims--many tens of thousands dead, hundreds of thousands displaced, millions coping with loss--were mostly the poor, vulnerable and remote. Entire villages of uncounted, nameless fishing people were swallowed by the sea. The tsunami wreaked havoc around the Bay of Bengal, from India, Sri Lanka and the low-lying islands that make up the Maldives in the west, to Thailand and Malaysia in the east. How many died may never be known. Across the region, hospitals and mortuaries overflowed. The tsunami battered some well-established tourist destinations where the travel business has brought a degree of prosperity. The cost of relief and rehabilitation will run into billions of dollars. Rebuilding their lives is the challenge facing the relief effort. It will be a logistical nightmare, since in many places, such as Sri Lanka, much of the infrastructure needed to reach the stricken villages has itself been destroyed. The tsunami, it was argued, offered some political hope of reconciliation between hostile communities: Muslims and Buddhists in southern Thailand, Acehnese and the Jakarta government, Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka.

Focuses on sustainable development. Details of the United Nations-sponsored World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa; How economic growth is being used to help the poor; Limit to the prospects of the summit.

The article discusses the development of nationhood in East Timor. It is a poor, subsistence economy encompassing half an island, but it has thousands of expensive four-wheel-drive vehicles and only a few hundred local fishing boats. This bizarre imbalance reflects the wrenching changes that East Timor has been through since its people overwhelmingly dared to vote a year ago to separate from Indonesia. In the weeks after the ballot, eight out of ten of its fishing craft were destroyed by pro-Indonesia militias in their determination to cripple the new country at birth.

The article discusses the areas pertaining to the poor in the U.S. which need to be addressed despite their progress. Economic expansion, accelerating productivity growth, growing equity markets and low unemployment rates have initiated progress of the poor. But one in four black American families is still poor. A recent survey of 26 big cities by the Conference of Mayors shows that more than two-thirds of them saw requests for emergency shelter increase in 1999.

The article explores the benefits of gentrification efforts in the U.S. It discusses critics' claim that gentrification leads to the displacement of poor residents, as well as the results of several studies that refute their claim. It also describes trends underlying the benefits of gentrification, including the lack of investment in poor neighborhoods and the promotion of affordable-housing schemes by city governments.

The article explores the inadequate supply of housing for the poor in the Middle East in 2018. Many developers have launched expensive homes for the rich instead of building flats for the poor. The luxury housing market is expected to slow due to lower demand from the rich. In response, many developers have decided to offer financing with no down-payment.

The article focuses on the lack of efforts to persuade poor people, particularly in Africa, to change their cooking method from wood and charcoal to cleaner fuels like liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and electricity. Topics include the negative health effects of household smoke produced by burning primitive solid fuels, the factors that influenced the poor change in cooking methods including weak markets and shortage of jambaar stoves, and the need to improve promotion of clean fuel for cooking.

The article reports that Dollar General Corp. has overtaken its rivals and is now preferred by low-income people in the U.S. The profits earned by the retailer have increased to reach more than double those earned by Macy's, which is among the most reputed brands in the retail industry. Dollar General is planning to continue its growth.

The article focuses on nomination of Ben Carson by U.S. President Donald Trump for leading the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It mentions that Carson's significant policy decision has been a two-year delay of the "small-area fair market rents" (SAFMR) rule, finalized by former U.S. President Barack Obama 's administration, which aimed to help voucher-holders move to better neighborhoods. It also mentions that the HUD funds rental-assistance schemes for poor people in the U.S.

Presents information on the state of the poor in Egypt as of March 1999. How they have been hit hard by the end of most food subsidies; The number of children who are stunted because of malnutrition; How public education is so bad that parents must choose which among their children will have a private tutor; Study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; State of the public health care system.

The article focuses on the cruel, discriminating and counterproductive attitude of Chinese schools, especially in rural areas. Topics discussed are need for better education to transform the young into skilled citizens who can help growth, issue of rural poor students to travel long distance due to lack of schools and health facilities, need for Chinese government to provide public education, health and other services for an equal and fair growth.

The article focuses on the growing dominance of solar power in Africa, which enables poor people in the continent to easily access electricity. Topics discussed include the spread of off-grid solar power in Africa, unrealistic circumstances affecting off-grid solar power's spread in Africa compared to traditional electricity grid, and the role played by the affordability of solar panels in the hike of off-grid solar power.

The article discusses the trend towards microlending in India. Topics discussed include microloans offered to small entrepreneurs which can be repaid once their businesses start to make profits, the aim of microlending to help people get out of poverty, and a comparison of active microfinance borrowers in several Asian countries.