World Bank

Defying Global Turmoil, Poverty Rates Fall Across Central Asia

ALMATY, October 17, 2022 – Poverty rates are falling again across Central Asia following a short but intense increase during the COVID-19 pandemic, said World Bank experts today at a regional online ...
The Conversation

DfID merger with Foreign Office signals shift from using aid to reduce poverty to promoting British national self interest

Michael Jennings does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
World Bank

Ending Poverty in Central Asia: Navigating Uncertainty

Before Central Asia could recover from the impacts of COVID-19 and return to pre-pandemic levels of poverty reduction, the world was plunged into more uncertainty given the war in Ukraine and rising ...
CNN

Middle class wiped out: Half of Myanmar’s people forced into poverty by civil war, UN report finds

Once considered among the most promising economies in Southeast Asia with a growing middle class, Myanmar is now suffering from soaring levels of poverty as a devastating civil war drives tens of ...
lse

Jobs, Gender and Poverty - IZA/DFID G²LM | LIC launch workshop

Professor Oriana Bandiera, Director of STICERD, will direct a new DFID IZA initiative on Gender, Jobs and Poverty. It has a budget of more than £10 million over 5 years to fund innovative research ...