A significant portion of the global population lives in extreme poverty. While the numbers have declined in the last few decades, World Bank estimates show that about 1.3 billion people worldwide make ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Marsabit, Kenya, May 23, 2015- For the first time, a scientific study using the same methods that ...

Over the last decade around the globe, the microfinance sector has seen cycles of tremendous boom and bust. Alongside, the sector has had more than its fair share of controversies, affected as it is ...

The United Nations has declared a goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. But for all the success that microfinance—financial services targeted at the economically active poor—has shown in ...

Permanently moving the ultra-poor—those who live on less than $1.25 a day—out of poverty poses one of the most difficult challenges for economic development. Many interventions work for a while and ...

ISLAMABAD: A delegation of Asian Development Bank (ADB) lead by Director General Central and West Asia Department (CWRD) Mr. Werner E. Liepach called on Secretary BISP Mr. Omar Hamid Khan here at ...