An operational review of the Safeguard Policy Statement by the ADB’s Independent Evaluation Department found substantial gaps in safeguard delivery and safeguard failures at the project level due to lack …
MGNREGS work demand does not directly correlate with increased rural distress at a micro-level and data from Financial Year 2024 shows states like Kerala and Tamil Nadu, with relatively lesser …
By Hilary Whiteman | CNN Anyone with half an eye on the housing market over the last two decades will know that in many countries, not least the United States, …
As Nigerians celebrated 25 years of unbroken democratic rule on Wednesday, Civil Society Organisations under the aegis of Osun Civil Societies Coalition (OCSC) and social activists took to the streets …
Africa’s share of global trade remains disproportionately small, hovering around 2%-3%. Countries on the continent trade more with the rest of the world than they do among themselves. Africa needs …
The new Canada Disability Benefit will lift about 25,000 adults out of poverty, according to new numbers released by the federal government — a figure well short of the hundreds of …
First Nations people in Alberta have been dying from opioids at more than eight times the rate of the rest of the population, according to newly published data that puts harder …
Africa’s most advanced economy has some of the world’s deepest socio-economic problems, including one of the worst unemployment rates at 32 per cent. Some groups say that is an undercount. …
More than a quarter of Syrians lived in extreme poverty, the World Bank said on Saturday, 13 years into a devastating civil war that has battered the economy and impoverished …
In a strange twist of fate, an Indonesian woman has discovered that the man she married was a groom she had met at a wedding when she was a child. …