China celebrates official end of extreme poverty, lauds Xi
The ruling Communist Party is celebrating the official end of extreme poverty in China with a propaganda campaign that praises President Xi Jinping’s …
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Cooperative for development
Ministry of Cooperative and Poverty Alleviation was formed in 2012. Today, cooperatives are accepted as inevitable part of economy. According to the …
Vaccines for refugees
Up to 115 million likely fell into extreme poverty in 2020, the World Bank estimates. Most live in lowand middle-income countries, especially in fragile …
Here are the ‘major achievements’ of KP Oli-led govt in three years (with full document)
More than 900,000 people have been taken out of absolute poverty. If there weren’t COVID-19, this number would cross 1.5 million. He said the UN …
BLOG SURF: Supporting the poor
A year ago, before the COVID-19 pandemic A struck, I was optimistic about the trends in global poverty: extreme poverty rates had been steadily …
Poverty and lack of awareness and access forcing many to resort to unsafe abortion
Sometimes even conjugal life. Poverty and not having a medical facility nearby adds complications to the plans of aborting and women and girls resort to …
COVID-19 Pushes 1.2 Million People into Poverty in Nepal
The pandemic has increased poverty in the country by four percent in the last FY 2019/20. Business. Government. News.
The eternal promise of the Arab Spring
… The Arab Spring that erupted a decade ago was a quest for human dignity whose protagonists sought to overcome decades of repression, poverty, …
Why Nepal must legalise cannabis
We believe this is one of the ways to alleviate rural poverty. It also comes at a time when there is a push internationally to legalise not just medicinal …
NEPAL’S INFORMAL SECTOR AND THE IMPACT OF COVID-19
With a huge chunk of the population merely above the poverty line before the pandemic will now be pushed down below the poverty line, undoing …
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