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and the Democratic Republic of the Congo make up nearly half of the world's poor. The report underscores the need for ...

India is among the five countries globally with the largest number of people living in poverty, according to the UN report ...

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AAP leader and former minister Satyendra Jain was released from Tihar jail after Delhi court granted him bail in money laundering case ...

Poverty has soared to hit more than half of the population over the last six years, according to the World Bank.

New research from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI ...

There are numerous critics of the Austrian School of economics, but when their disparagements are closely examined, the ...