Mr Akiba believes poverty and poor living conditions in the treaty villages are making people desperate, and he is worried tensions between PNG fishermen and Saibai locals could escalate.

Between 1990 and 2022, the share of the commission’s official development assistance, or ODA, going to LDCs dropped from 52% to 19%, bucking the trend among major donors. With a Devex Pro subscription ...

The report emphasizes that without immediate action to ramp up investment, Pacific nations may struggle to reduce poverty or generate new economic ... Ndegwa, World Bank Country Director for the ...

In the lead up to the inauguration of President Prabowo Subianto last Sunday, Indonesia established five “Vulnerable Area ...

Then it is the big one for the night, the New Zealand Kiwi host the Tonga XIII in the Pacific Cup decider. The winner wins the Cup and stays in the competition for 2025. The loser will meet the winner ...

USDA bans processing fees for low-income families' school meals, aiming to reduce financial burden and ensure equitable ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2024 – At today’s feeble pace, it could take more than a century to eliminate poverty as it is defined for nearly half the world – people who live on less than $6.85 per day, ...

A major consequence of child poverty highlighted in the report is the causal link between poverty and child abuse.

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More than one billion people live in acute poverty, with nearly half of them in countries experiencing conflict, according to a new United Nations report. Countries at war have higher levels of ...

Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America?