Achieving international competitiveness is a much higher bar than simply being competent. It is time to accept that SA has entered a poverty trap reflecting how both the former and current political ...

The Scottish and UK governments need to work together to remove a poverty trap in which a family trying to escape poverty ...

Disability rights advocates say income and asset caps for Medicaid buy-in programs are a "poverty trap" for millions of ...

Readers respond to a column by Ross Douthat arguing that populist ideas, not oligarchic self-interest, motivate President ...

Asking how ministers arrived at the figure, he said: “Yet, the Resolution Foundation has said, because the benefits cuts fall ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged the Nigerian government to expedite the completion of its cash transfer programme to support vulnerable households, stressing that the initiative ...

A misguided view of the generosity of welfare is one of the problems threatening social cohesion, a researcher says: "Without ...

"It's a trap — a poverty trap," said Stephen Lieberman, a policy director for the United Spinal Association, which supports the changes. Lawmakers in Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Maine ...

Despite decades of foreign aid and periodic debt relief, Malawi remains one of the world’s poorest with 72 percent of ...

The world we live in is changing rapidly, and not always for the better. Recent reports have highlighted a concerning trend: ...