Since 1997, the annual UNDP Report tries to measure poverty in the Third World using a human poverty index that considers other criteria than monetary income. These are : – the probability at birth of ...

Egypt’s Minister of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation, Rania Al Mashat, held a meeting with the ...

Recently, the World Bank came out with an update on the methodology and level of its poverty line. What does this update say ...

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has criticised the Presidency for its response to recent comments made by President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, on ...

For him, distilling various measures of poverty into a single index is akin to combining all the dials and gauges in a car into just one instrument. “The human development dimensions of welfare are ...

President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of ...

The Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation is an inter-governmental organization of 57 Muslim-majority countries with a mission to promote human rights and advance science and technology development.

It argues that if not addressed, the human capital index (HCI) scores of 0.56 across many countries in the world would mean that “by the age of 18, a child born today will only be 56 percent as ...