Of the total, about 100 trillion VND will come from the central budget, 300 trillion VND from local budgets, and roughly 23 ...

The Lao PDR today launched the second Reducing Rural Poverty and Malnutrition Project, bringing additional resources to improve nutrition and raise incomes in 25 of the country’s poorest districts, ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

Development financing that deepens poverty is not development at all — it is extraction. Council officials have sought refuge ...

SBI research shows that MGNREGA now covers only a small fraction of rural household expenditure, making its impact on poverty ...

In a recent address, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stated that stabilising and growing the economy is not sufficient unless the benefits of growth are equitably distributed—particularly to people ...

Ambassador Mohan Pieris, President’s Counsel, has been serving as the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York since January 2021. Prior to his appointment, Ambassador ...

Yuchih Choy loads boxes of food into a pickup at the West Texas Food Bank in Odessa on Oct. 5, 2022. Credit: Mark Rogers for The Texas Tribune The number of Texans living in poverty slightly declined ...

After China declared victory in eradicating absolute poverty in 2021, consolidating the gains made and preventing poverty ...

The arrival of Tanzania Social Action Fund’s (Tasaf) five-year Tanzania Poverty Reduction Project Phase IV (TPRP-IV), running ...