Poverty Reduction

Covid-19 strikes hard in Rio de Janeiro's many informal settlements

A South Sudanese exile has become the go-to IT expert for his neighbours at a refugee settlement in northern Uganda

Two Nobel laureates want economists to focus more on empirical reality

Left to themselves, developing countries can’t cope with the Covid-19 pandemic

In Malawi, an army of volunteers across the country are busy sewing face masks from locally available materials such as cotton and pieces of fabric

When health professionals migrate to prosperous countries, they no longer serve patients at home

The Covid-19 crisis is the right time to test UBI policies

Untrained ‘backyard’ midwives fill a gap in Zimbabwe’s health system

UN statistics show that migration has an impact on how individual countries’ populations develop

Covid-19 hits women harder, warns OECD