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Nick Bernards shows long-term failures of microfinance in his book ‘A Critical History of Poverty Finance: Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures’. The burden of proof that microfinance makes any ...
One of the biggest challenges in providing relief to people living in poverty is locating them. The availability of accurate and reliable information on the location of impoverished zones is ...
IT IS NOT just Europe that faces a reckoning as a result of the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The increase in oil and gas prices globally is also damaging communities and ...
Poverty especially on an absolute scale, is a devastating economic/financial disease afflicting most (if not all) human societies across diverse geographies and time periods. However, the intensity ...
The Central African Republic (CAR) has the 5th highest rate of poverty in the world, with nearly 70% of the country’s people living in extreme poverty. The World Bank’s first-ever Poverty Assessment ...
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