Sunday, October 17, 2021
Sri Lanka has a great track record in raising living standards and reducing poverty. In the decade preceding the COVID-19 crisis poverty was declining. The share of poor people came down from 16.2 percent in 2012/13 to 11 percent in 2016—measured at...
Friday, October 15, 2021
Earlier this year China’s government announced that it had eradicated absolute poverty, measured against a standard equivalent to $2.30 per person per day applied to rural areas. The latest Household Survey on Income, Expenditure and Living Conditions...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
More households reported losing 50 percent or more of their income and the government is urged to address the need for long-term social protection schemes as growth predictions are cut for the year. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Sept. 22 announced...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
During the final years of the Soviet regime, approximately 500 collective and state farms controlled 98 percent of the arable land in the Kyrgyz Republic. These centrally managed enterprises focused on a few priorities, especially raising sheep for wool...
Thursday, May 13, 2021
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Getting older is a natural process, and one that I would like to go through. However, in the community where...
Friday, January 17, 2020
Hours after Imran Khan claimed victory in Pakistan's July 2018 general election, the former cricketer addressed the nation with his new vision for the country. Following a combative contest dominated by claims of corruption, ballot rigging and military...
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Friday, January 17, 2020
OPINION: Food systems are currently not fit for purpose. They do not meet the food and nutrition security needs of a growing global population and create significant environmental and health costs. As such, a comprehensive transformation is required in...
Friday, December 13, 2019
BLOG: Spending on social protection interventions, such as the Senior Citizens Grant, is not a welfare cost, but is in fact an investment to the economy that demonstrates remarkable macro-economic impacts comparable to investment in other interventions...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
BLOG: UC Berkeley researchers found that cash transfers to rural Kenyans led to improvements in the local economy, according to an economic study. Researchers gave more than 10,500 households across 653 randomized villages in rural Kenya a one-time...
Monday, November 25, 2019
BLOG: For about a decade now, the charity GiveDirectly has been distributing cash straight to poor residents in sub-Saharan Africa, starting in Kenya and expanding later to Uganda, Malawi, Rwanda, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the...