Impoverished kids live in misery, through no fault of their own. Worse, childhood poverty diminishes their life chances because poor nutrition harms their small brains, as does a home made stressful ...

A new report from the United Kingdom-based The Payments Association suggests the area’s burgeoning Fintech sector can play a key part in helping folks emerge from poverty. Navigating the rising ...

2023 is very exciting in the Philippines! As a farmer, we are now allowed to plant Bt eggplant. This will give us better yields and more economic opportunity! Last fall the Philippine government ...

Alfredo lives in a rural Guatemalan village and travels to the U.S. with an H-2A visa each May to work in a nursery, returning each December, in time for Christmas, to spend a few months with family.

An ad hoc committee will analyze the evidence on key determinants of entrenched poverty and the effectiveness of programs designed to address those determinants to identify policies and programs with ...

At the start of the 2022-2023 academic year, three Dornsife School of Public Health master’s students worked together to complete an Applied Practical Experience at the Center for Leadership, ...

Assistant Professor of Digital and Computational Studies (DCS) Fernando Nascimento hired Ashley Morash ’26 and Ben Israel ’25 this summer to help him tackle some of the more persistent dimensions of ...

A new report by Columbia University researchers and the Robin Hood Foundation shows that between 2021 and 2022, the share of New Yorkers living in poverty — defined as income plus benefits that don’t ...

The startup, Karya, pays thousands of people in low-income communities to create voice recordings and text on their smartphones. It can be easy to overlook the people behind all the technology we use.

BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A total of 832 counties, 128,000 villages and nearly 100 million people were living in poverty. This was the reality that China had to face. The task of providing support to ...

Researchers from the University of Zurich and Wuhan University have assessed how solar energy resources affect social and economic development to reduce poverty in China, using empirical data from the ...