Poverty Reduction

UN report highlights challenges related to water stress

Nepal's government may need to reconsider its development strategy due to Covid-19 crisis

The climate crisis and overuse of water put the water supply in many countries at risk

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