In Europe, where you start in life still largely shapes where you end up. Yet, European policies too often fail to address the structural barriers that lock young people into disadvantage. Without ...

Debt is not just a math problem for low income households, it is a form of financial gravity that pulls people deeper every time they try to climb out. I see the same ten forces repeating across ...

Recent fuel and electricity price increases are forcing South African families to choose between keeping the lights on and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. Did you know that nearly half of the world's population survives on less than $6.85 a day? That ...

Previous research suggests that economy-wide poverty traps are rarely observed in the data. In this paper, we explore a related hypothesis: low-income countries rarely improve their position relative ...

Nobel Laureate and economist Prof Abhijit Banerjee on Monday said that the solution to a complex problem like poverty comes from ground-level experiments and micro-level policy reforms. Delivering a ...

Matt Bruenig, a writer at the think tank Demos, has a very interesting theory about poverty. He points out that poverty declines as people age. Much of it is simply due to the life cycle of earnings - ...

An estimated 2 million Africans die each year of AIDS, and 24 million are infected with HIV. Malaria, cholera and even polio are on the rise in... AIDS, Other Diseases Create Poverty Trap in Africa ...

Bangladesh is a country of over 176 million people. It is still far away from rising above the poverty trap. The World Bank’s ...