This was a South Asian woman who grew up in poverty, who went on to play Cathy in "Wuthering Heights," this canonically white role. Merle Oberon, Actress: Heathcliff, make the world stop right here.

The East Asian economic miracle showed that transformative poverty reduction is possible through sustained economic development. However, the Global South still struggles with systemic poverty.

The nation's "peak wage" system and mandatory retirement policies are pushing many older workers into lower-paid, more precarious jobs, even as the country faces a shrinking workforce and a falling ...

According to the UN reports on poverty alleviation of 2022, half of the East Asia workforce is informal, however, southeast Asia is close to 75 percent and South Asia has a 90 percent performed ...

In 1985, seven South Asian countries — Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka — came ...

The ongoing China-India contestation for supremacy in South Asia is poised to escalate, particularly as Pakistan, Bangladesh, and China advance plans for a new regional organisation that could ...