By Ruchi Chabra It begins with a whistle. I sit by the window of the train, clutching a lukewarm cup of over-sweet chai. The ...

For decades, India has struggled with the twin challenges of poverty and inequality - a land of billionaires and slums, ...

Slums and Informal Settlements in Ghana, has once again brought to the fore a critical development issue--the alarming spread of slums across the country.This issue demands urgent and sustained ...

A report by the Ghana Statistical Service revealed that about 4.82 million Ghanaians, roughly 30.8 per cent of the urban ...

On a hot Wednesday afternoon in Monrovia, while most children were tucked away in classrooms, 10-year-old Kebbeh Johnson and 12-year-old Telema Zayzay sat on a cracked sidewalk in Buzzy Quarter, one ...

Displaced by climate disasters, poverty, or personal tragedy, Dhaka’s streets serve as the only homes for those without shelter ...

Latest World Bank figures point to a sharp decline in the ratio of extreme poverty in India. It fell to 5.3% in 2022-23 from 27.1% in 2011-12, with 269 million individuals lifted out of such ...

Dubai: From the suffocating poverty of Manila ’s slums to the dazzling lights of Dubai’s World Trade Center, Jenny Raet’s journey is nothing short of a miracle. As a six-year-old, she ...

A comprehensive new study reveals how poverty reduction efforts are struggling to improve the livelihoods of vulnerable communities in Kathmandu's slum areas, particularly in Ward No. 14 of ...

A well-wisher sponsored him to school, snatching him from the unforgiving hands of slum poverty, crime and drug and thankfully, he devoted himself to studies, scaling his way to top echelon of ...

The journey over the past two decades has not been uniform in the sense that the success in rural poverty reduction has not been mirrored in the urban context of Bangladesh, giving rise to the ...

In a study of poverty in the Lagos State slums, two other development economists and I used a mathematical framework to model multidimensional poverty. We used what is known as the fuzzy set approach.