Nepal: Figuratively richer
Remittance-based poverty reduction is unsustainable. In Zambia, as rising debt burden has hampered resource allocation in other important public …
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Pandemic could affect school retention and enrolment rates
“My experience tells me that poverty has a direct bearing on high dropout rates and out-of-school rates among children,” said Babu Ram Poudel, former …
Putting the MCC in context
… accelerate economic growth, and reduce poverty‘. This would be MCC’s first such ‘compact’ in South Asia, and according to the CEO of the MCC, …
Protecting the Economically Vulnerable Population
In Nepal, one-fourth of the population lives below the national poverty line (i.e. live on less than $0.5 per day). Given their finite earnings and scarce …
Family of deceased in dire straits
They stayed in the quarantine facility established in the local Satyabadi Secondary School soon after they reached the district. A family in abject poverty …
Accepting this grant is Nepal’s choice but the availability of MCC funding is not open-ended: US
The Nepali-led projects funded by the MCC compact seek to support poverty reduction through the country’s economic growth. While stating that …
Urgent action needed to safeguard millions of children’s future, says UNICEF
… and governments must take urgent action to prevent millions of families from slipping back into poverty, UNICEF said in a report released yesterday.
Coronavirus surges in Latin America as deaths surpass 100000
… high poverty levels. Latin America has seen an alarming spike in cases and deaths even as the tide of infection recedes in Europe and parts of Asia.
As virus spikes, Pakistan says there’s no choice but to open
The number of people living in poverty has risen to 40% from 30% since the pandemic began. Massive job losses could spark unrest, Sharif warned.
They can make a difference
It concluded that poverty would have declined by five percent instead of 11 percent if remittances had remained unchanged between the two surveys. In …
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