... rights, particularly the right to public education. The lack of formal schooling severely restricts their future opportunities, entrenching them in cycles of poverty and informal employment. This exclusion ...
Thursday, 24 April 2025
Global MPI 2024 : WHO ARE THE POOREST?
Across 112 countries and 6.3 billion people, 1.1 billion people (18.3%) live in acute multidimensional poverty .
A Day in the Life: ...
Thursday, 17 April 2025
A Fresh Take on Reducing Inequality and Enhancing Mobility In Malaysia
KEY FINDINGS
1. Current State of Inequality
Malaysia has made impressive strides in economic growth and poverty reduction ...
Wednesday, 12 February 2025
The State of Households 2024: Households and the Pandemic 2019-2022
Some Key takeaways of the report:
(1) Absolute poverty increased in 2019–2022, especially among urban households, rising from ...
Friday, 27 September 2024
A Different Lens: Unravelling the poverty puzzle
The gap between the rich and the poor continues to grow with the cost-of-living crisis hurting the middle class more ...
Thursday, 15 August 2024
... households, bear a disproportionate burden of poverty . Alarmingly, almost every child, about 95% of them, are living in relative poverty . Furthermore, a staggering 40% of children reside in households ...
Thursday, 09 May 2024
Eradicating Poverty beyond Growth...
"We are exhausting the Planet and its People"!!!
Please view the short, effective & excellent presentation by the
UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON ...
Sunday, 05 May 2024
... space to invest in poverty eradication, social services and global public goods? What does the international community need to do to get back on track towards reaching the Sustainable Development Goals ...
Thursday, 02 May 2024
... of poverty and the barren land of ignorance. We must strive to eliminate barriers to education, whether they be financial, social, or systemic, and ensure that every child has the opportunity to learn ...
Saturday, 30 December 2023
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty , 17 October
2023 Theme
Decent Work and Social Protection: Putting dignity in practice for all
The International Day for the Eradication ...
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
... political circus!
We can and will transcend our primordial instincts,
Rise above the social constructs,
To focus on the real issues.
- Poverty , Social Inclusion, Health, Education, Climate ...
Saturday, 23 September 2023
... efforts to address rising extreme inequality.
We are living through a time of extraordinarily high economic inequality. Extreme poverty and extreme wealth have risen sharply and simultaneously for ...
Thursday, 03 August 2023
... early childhood development policy in low-income contexts.
Read the full paper »
https://www.poverty actionlab.org/sites/default/files/research-paper/WP4596_Informing-Mothers-about-the-Benefits-of-Conversing-with-Infants-in-Ghana_Dupas-et-al_May2023.pdf ...
Thursday, 22 June 2023
IMPLEMENT SENIOR CITIZENS' PENSION NOW..
Old Age Poverty is a serious societal issue that needs to be given urgent priority in national policy planning and resource mobilization.
1. ...
Friday, 14 April 2023
... lower-income households is relevant and timely.
There is an ongoing need to better understand and properly measure poverty and inequality. This is so that responses and policies can be rolled ...
Saturday, 11 February 2023
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https://www.bernama.com/en/b_focus/v2/news.php?id=2151631
Orang Asli: Poverty Forcing Children Out Of School [29 December 2022]
https://www.bernama.com/en/b_focus/v2/news.php?id=2151887 ...
Saturday, 31 December 2022
... that many parents here are aware that only education can pull their community out of the clutches of poverty . In fact, some of them regretted stopping their children’s schooling as it prevented them from ...
Tuesday, 27 December 2022
... There are urban poverty programmes, food baskets and various ministries have their own programmes to help the poor, which have been rolled out fast. We also see many NGOs and religious institutions organising ...
Friday, 19 August 2022
... three economic features for parliamentary constituencies – inequality, poverty , and unemployment rate.
Malaysian inequality has been declining since 1980s but started to widen from 2016 to 2019. GINI ...
Thursday, 05 May 2022
The history of the end of poverty has just begun..
The decline of global poverty is one of the most important achievements in history, but the end of poverty is still very far away.
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Wednesday, 12 January 2022