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 ...

The Mukuru Talent Football Academy isn’t just a training ground — it’s a lifeline for hundreds of children and teenagers ...

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

Quite significantly, the Division Bench propounds in para 321 holding that, “The constitutional right to housing for the slum dwellers cannot be protected by compromising the right of other citizens ...

Delhi plans to redevelop 675 slums based on Mumbai's Dharavi model, ensuring slum dwellers vacate after being allotted flats, says CM Gupta. | Latest News Delhi ...

The dispute began in 2012, when the petitioners — slum residents — had gone to a civil court, challenging their removal from the land. In 2016, the court partly ruled in their favour, saying two ...

It can show palpable results in helping vulnerable people solve very practical problems. Banerjee and Duflo are at its center. They founded the organization in 2003 as the Poverty Action Lab, along ...

At the heart of the project lies the promise of rehabilitation for Dharavi’s nearly one million residents. But according to the master plan, only 72,000 units will be constructed—58,500 of them ...

Republicans are also "making what is, in theory, a new higher credit much harder for families with children to actually receive," says Megan Curran, policy director with the Center on Poverty and ...