A product of energy poverty in city slums Increasing urbanisation is reducing access to traditional fuels such as wood and crop residue from farmland. But plastic is readily available. Low-income ...

Our nation’s greatest tragedy is not poverty, corruption, or external threats — it’s our paralysis in the face of these challenges. The current socioeconomic-political system, dominated by oligarchs ...

When I undertook a sociological survey, at the age of 23 years among the Veddas of Wellassa-Bintenne in 1950, I came to ...

“We got a first-hand look at the extent of poverty among slum dwellers ... of the night for distribution to schools, temples and slums. “This trip would never have been possible without ...

IN Rome, Pope Francis — loved for his gentle heart and bubbly smile — is fighting a serious health battle as of this writing. Prayers flood in, and the world re ...

Tesla has unveiled its new and improved all-electric Model Y for the Philippine market. At the launch event at EDSA Shangri-La Plaza in Mandaluyong City on Wednesday, Tesla Philippines regional ...

The share of New Yorkers in poverty is nearly double the national average, according to a report from Columbia University and an anti-poverty group. By Benjamin Oreskes Benjamin Oreskes reported ...

Some 700 million people around the globe live in extreme poverty, defined by the World Bank as living on less than $2.15 per day. Ending that poverty, one of the United Nations’ Sustainable ...

a period marked by the highest level of neglect towards the urban poor and marginalised communities living in urban slums. More specifically, findings on urban poverty reduction from different ...

We will have to wait and see what kind of changes the interim government will bring in protecting the rights of the young domestic workers. No one deserves to suffer what Kalpana had to.