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Despite living in a nation often associated with abundance, millions of families still struggle to access enough food for a ...

As the IT sector grows in India, it fails to address or even acknowledge the social barriers that exclude marginalised groups ...

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A World Bank study reveals that 184 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean are vulnerable to poverty, with climate ...

Every year, trillions of dollars are invested in global markets that contribute to climate change and biodiversity loss. Creating markets in ‘natural capital’ could be a powerful way to tackle these c ...

After weeks of deadly demonstrations that toppled Bangladesh’s autocratic government in August, the students who led the ...

The practice of rural banking in India is characterized by traditional practices that often bar a big majority of the ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

Imagine a young mother in a drought-hit village in Maharashtra, toiling on barren land, unable to provide enough for her children. Now, picture the same woman working under the shade of vibrant ...

Multidimensional nature of poverty When poor people speak about well-being ... The experience of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank, which makes loans to rural, landless, often illiterate, poor women for the ...