Poverty Asia

… respond to questions about how much applicants might be forced to pay, and it is unclear how many families fleeing poverty would be able to afford …

Kathmandu, April 28. Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that the 15th five-year plan will significantly reduce absolute poverty and the government …

KATHMANDU: Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Padma Aryal, has said preparations are underway to form a …

Thousands of people can be lifted out of poverty within a couple of years, even without distributing land to the poor and landless families, displaced by …

BAJURA: Scarcity of food and poverty are seen as leading contributors of malnutrition in children and women in Bajura district. Children are deprived …

South Asian countries’ exports are only one-third of what they should be, had they mirrored the experience of economies with similar characteristics. Without further integration into global markets, South Asia will not sustain its growth. Photo: Shutte…

Photo: World Bank
Over the last few decades, Nepal has considerably improved the health and wellbeing of its people.
As we mark World Health Day today, here’s an overview of how much health progress Nepal has made in its efforts to meet the Sustainable…

Basic needs, such as the freedom for all from hunger, poverty, ill-health and gender-based discrimination, and equal opportunity for all to realise life’s …

The children of the displaced families are deprived of a basic education and healthcare, putting them into a vicious circle of poverty. If history is …

Around 21 per cent population of the country is below the poverty line and the target is to reduce this to 13 per cent by 2022. A draft policy prepared by …