It should hopefully be clear to BBM and our policymakers that unless they tackle agrarian reform first, nothing they are thinking of doing will make our agricultural sector more productive.

A record 80 percent of mothers in Japan had a job in 2024, a welfare ministry survey showed Friday. The proportion of working mothers rose 3.1 percentage points from the previous year to 80.9 percent, ...

Eighty years ago, on June 26, 1945, the UN Charter was signed at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on ...

India has made substantial strides in social protection, expanding coverage from 22% in 2016 to 64.3% in 2025. Poverty has ...

Among people identifying as Hispanic and Latino in the state, the poverty rate is nearly double: 13.8%, or about 8,250, the study found, using a five-year average ending 2023. Black people had a ...

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the share of Americans making at or below the minimum wage declined from 1.1 percent in 2012 (3.55 million workers out of 314,725,000 Americans ...

Save the Children Japan conducted an online questionnaire about child poverty in July 2024. Said to be the largest survey in Japan, this is the first time since 2019 that it has been held. The ...

South Sudan, December 10, 2024- A new South Sudan Poverty and Equity Assessment (PEA) Report, released today by the World Bank, indicates that poverty is endemic, and vulnerability is almost universal ...

Shibuya, a Tokyo district of seemingly perpetual redevelopment and shimmering skyscrapers crammed with offices, shops and eateries; the sort of place that makes it is easy to forget that poverty ...

Poverty in Argentina rose to affect over 52 percent of the population in the first six months of self-declared "anarcho-capitalist" Javier Milei's presidency, according to official data released ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Statistics Indonesia (BPS) has recently released the latest data on the country’s poverty rate as of March 2024, revealing a decrease of 0.33 percent to 9.03 percent, which amounts ...

More than 660,000 older Americans in California are living below the poverty line, according to an analysis by the health research site KFF, the highest number in the country. The number—662,000 ...