Poverty report

Johannesburg city authorities leased it to a charity providing shelter for women in 2016, but it had "ended up serving a different purpose," Mayor Kabelo Gwamanda told reporters.

Each society goes about “manufacturing” poverty in its own way and high levels of poverty – whether in rich or less prosperous societies – are by no means inevitable.

The confrontation between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian Arab terrorists in Jenin on May 29th might seem to have been a routine incident.

The 10 graphs featured in this article show that, for perhaps the first time in human history, our future is better than most of us think.

Poverty is not predetermined and gaps can be narrowed if we set our minds to it.

If a meaningful plan to address food insecurity is not formulated and implemented, it is guaranteed that we will be having this exact same conversation after the release of the next report.

Charitable organizations play a vital role in a country where the cost of living and the gap between rich and poor are large and growing, but experts say a real solution requires government action

Israel’s poverty rate ranks second-worst in the developed world.

Study: “Punishment alone may not be appropriate in the case of young people. It would be more useful to create real opportunities for rehabilitation – life opportunities.”

After a migrant boat tragically sunk, leaving 94 dead in an ill-fated voyage, new light is shed shed on poverty in Lebanon.

The vast majority of the country’s estimated 200,000 Jews have remained in the country.