A developing country is a country with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries. A developed country (or industrialized country, high-income country, more economically developed country (MEDC)) is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy and…

Violent conflict contributes to poverty in a number of ways, including causing: damage to infrastructure, institutions, and production; the destruction of assets; the breakup of communities and social networks; forced displacement, and increased unemployment and inflation. Still today most violent conflicts contain religious elements linked up with ethno-national, inter-state, economic…

“Poverty is a gendered experience,” says UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Geeta Rao Gupta. More women than men are poor. They are often the poorest of the poor. Women may be more vulnerable and less able to emerge from poverty because of their social status in some cultures. …

Poverty is a human-made phenomenon. Just as humans have created great wealth, we have created great poverty. …

In order to better understand poverty and the factors that contribute to it, it’s also important to understand racism and how the two are inextricably linked. …

Each year on October. 17, we mark End Poverty Day at the World Bank Group to celebrate the progress we’ve made toward our twin goals: to end extreme poverty by 2030; and to boost shared prosperity among the poorest 40 percent around the world. …

Do you ever wonder what might happen in the future? The poor that you might see on the street, will they still be there? Will poverty increase? Will the condition of our world worsen? If we look at the last 200 years, Poverty has decreased. By a lot. SDG 1…

Homelessness can result from many factors, such as whether a person is working, the experience of family and domestic violence, ill health (including mental health) and disability, trauma, and substance misuse (Fitzpatrick et al., 2012). Ongoing stress associated with poverty, or the stress of living with less than one needs…

Are you getting some snow this week? It’s supposed to snow pretty hard. It’s a beautiful thing really, nature’s way of cleansing itself. When I think about snow, I imagine myself curled up by the fireplace with a good book. Although, today when I stepped out onto my patio I…