"The goal of a poverty summit is to pack influential people, such as nonprofit representatives, law enforcement, first ...

Most poverty-fighting efforts focus on meeting basic material needs, such as food and shelter. But this overlooks the ...

Significant Improvement in the Living Standards of the Poor Through poverty alleviation, there has been a substantial ...

In frozen Changchun, Tony Rayns visited Zhang Yimou as he shot the last scenes of his film To Live. The director spoke with Rayns about laughter as a form of resilience and the state of filmmaking in ...

The United Nations says the return of millions of Afghan nationals is putting extreme pressure on struggling communities ...

With only two reserved seats and very little political clout, Bihar’s Adivasis are battling against invisibility and ensuring ...

Tucked away in southwestern Virginia’s New River Valley, this little town offers something increasingly rare in America: the ability to live comfortably without winning the lottery first. The cost of ...

As world leaders come to Brazil for climate talks, people like Cassiano are the ones with the most at stake. Poor communities are often more vulnerable to hazards like extreme heat and supersized ...

Uruapan Mayor Carlos Manzo is assassinated in Michoacán's avocado hub, exposing security gaps as Mexico vows no impunity.

Here’s something that sounds like fiction but isn’t; there’s a Nevada town where nineteen hundred dollars a month isn’t a poverty sentence but an actual pathway to comfortable retirement.

China deserves recognition for lifting more people out of poverty than any nation in history. That is a profound achievement.

Dr. Middleton and Dr. Brashares are professors of environmental science, policy and management at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Orrick is the director of the California Wolf Project.