Abstract Although poverty persists across many low-income communities, the rise of business innovation has created new ...

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest poverty alleviation program for families with children in the US, and it has well-documented health effects. However, not all eligible families ...

Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University–led study. Based on household surveys in ...

Ensuring that poverty-alleviation initiatives reach those most in need has been slow and difficult in most developing countries. But if governments make the most of existing data and systems, carry ...

Leni Robredo was the 14th vice president of the Philippines, serving from 2016 to 2022. During her term, she reinvented the Office of the Vice President from a purely ceremonial one into an advocacy ...

Some of the poorest Christians living in the ghettos of Punjab province and Scheduled Caste or former untouchable Hindus have been left out of the World Bank’s targeted intervention to reduce poverty ...

We’ve entered a new era of austerity. The global pullback on international aid is still unfolding, and the sector is only beginning to process the full implications. International development ...

GENERAL SANTOS CITY—Even as the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) enjoys fiscal autonomy, national government funding for social welfare and protection initiatives is still the ...

We have written to OJK, which oversees all banks and publicly listed companies, to ensure that CSR, estimated at around Rp100 trillion annually, can be directed toward accelerating poverty alleviation ...