Thomas Piketty's ambitious plans for shrinking the workweek and capping the GDP of wealthy countries would hurt not just the billionaires but every American.

A viral social media post argues that Indian parents want their children to succeed but still expect them to go through the ...

Microfinance aimed to foster prosperity but stoked hardship for those borrowers who took on debt they couldn’t afford.

THE Regional Development Council for Central Visayas (RDC-7) has made it a top priority to bring down poverty incidence from ...

Creek Street, the historic boardwalk in Ketchikan, Alaska. Alaska did not have the highest outright poverty rate. But it did experience a shocking increase in poverty among people aged 65 and older ...

To better understand what it means to be "poor" in each state, we calculated the income it takes to be at the poverty level ...

We’re closer than ever before to ending extreme poverty. In 1990, 36% of the world’s population was living on less than US$1.90 a day. By 2015, this figure had shrunk to just 10%. That’s over a ...

Dr Anjali Malhotra explains why women in India tend to suffer from metabolic disorders. Here is how the effect the metabolic ...

Religion and poverty are two of the world’s most enduring social and cultural phenomena. They have a long and eventful history, and are not separate from one another, but closely interrelated: on the ...