China will allocate more funds to lift its rural population out of poverty this year, with efforts focused on making education more accessible for the poor, said a top poverty relief official.

Nepal has made the “fastest progress” in reducing multidimensional poverty, according to a study by Oxford University.

Bangladesh has been identified as one of the ‘star performers’ in the poverty reduction initiative globally as the world poverty is coming down rapidly.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council Tuesday approved a development project aimed at reducing poverty and accelerating growth in 14 northern districts through development of rur

EU wants to rally member states to support development plan that commits to poverty reduction through sustainable growth

“The project to ‘Alleviate Poverty and Malnutrition in Agro Biodiversity Hot Spots’ in Kolli Hills that is jointly implemented by the University of Alberta (UA), Canada, and M.S.

World Vision, a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization, dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice, launched a one-year project

Sri Lanka’s poverty index was 22.7 percent in 2002. Today it is only 8.9 percent. But on the other hand, under-weight child births have increased to 16 percent.

An anti-poverty project to transform the lives of ultra poor families has failed to make an impact and increase the net income of the targeted families in Medak district in the State at the end of four years.

The project sponsored by the World Bank and the Ford Foundation was aimed at graduating 426 households from extreme poverty to a more stable state by enabling them establish micro-enterprises through regular cash flows. The households without a male earning member and having ownership of less than an acre of land were selected in 103 villages for implementing the project.