A survey conducted in favelas across Brazil analyzed perceptions of consumption, living conditions, and residents’ ...

When Denis Jobin, a senior evaluation specialist at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), visited a slum in Kenya in ...

A recent report from the World Bank highlights a pressing global issue: 8.5% of the world’s population—approximately 700 million people—live in extreme poverty, defined as surviving on less ...

In a study of poverty in the Lagos State slums, two other development economists and I used a mathematical framework to model multidimensional poverty. We used what is known as the fuzzy set approach.

Margaret Talbot writes about “Poverty, by America,” a new book by Matthew Desmond, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Evicted.” ...

Poverty, the real kind, is hidden in huge neighborhoods made of tin houses, without running water, sewage or electricity. Invisible cities, where no one goes and that no one talks about.

Climate financing: Financing from international institutions typically favours large projects. Even when climate funds do reach sub-national levels, slum upgrading is seldom viewed as a priority.

They were high across many slums, contributing significantly to their multidimensional poverty indexes. Other communities, such as Amukoko (0.0312), showed better sanitation outcomes.

Another slum priest, the Rev. Lorenzo de Vedia, known as “Padre Toto,” has been working for several years in the Villa 21-24 de Barracas.

WINNIE MUHONJA has faced many difficulties in her life. Covid-19 is just the latest. Having grown up in Kibera, a huge slum with 300,000 residents in the middle of Nairobi, she is used to the ...