Former CBN director urges government to intensify efforts to strengthen nation’s economy
Dr Titus Okunrounmu, a former Director, Budgetary Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has called on the Federal Government to redouble efforts in...
Tag : Poverty
In Argentina’s Debt Negotiations, a Kinder, Gentler Capitalism Faces a Test
LONDON — Laurence D. Fink presents himself as the vanguard of a progressive form of capitalism in which profits are not everything: The enlightened money...
Coronavirus Forced Indian Workers on a Deadly Journey
DEVARI, India — Somebody took a photograph on the side of a highway in India. On a clearing of baked earth, a lithe, athletic man...
A Quarter of Bangladesh Is Flooded. Millions Have Lost Everything.
Torrential rains have submerged at least a quarter of Bangladesh, washing away the few things that count as assets for some of the world’s poorest...
Why Hunger Can Grow Even When Poverty Doesn’t
The news about the needy in recent weeks has at times seemed at odds with itself. As surveys find more people are going hungry, evidence...
They Crossed Oceans to Lift Their Families Out of Poverty. Now, They Need Help.
LONDON — For more than a decade, Flavius Tudor has shared the money he has made in England with his mother in Romania, regularly sending...
A ‘Safety Net’ That’s a Kafkaesque Mess
In July 1988, a crowd of roughly 40 protesters gathered outside the Los Angeles Federal Building. As they chanted, their leader, Dr. Paul Longmore, a...
Egypt homeless, street children hit hard by pandemic scourge
Wandering Cairo’s bustling streets, Zeinab was struggling to survive by selling tissues when the coronavirus left her even more vulnerable, along with thousands of other...
Bartering Child’s Dress for Food: Life in Lebanon’s Economic Crisis
BEIRUT, Lebanon — For three decades, Chef Antoine El Hajj has appeared on television five days a week to help cooks across Lebanon improve their...
In Latin America, the Pandemic Threatens Equality Like Never Before
By Julie Turkewitz and Sofía Villamil Photographs by Federico Rios Over the past two decades, inequality in Latin America had fallen to the lowest point...