The rising costs of basic goods and commodities driven by the prolonged Middle East conflict could stall gains in poverty ...

(Fixes typo in first bullet point) By Camillus Eboh ABUJA, April 7 (Reuters) - Nigeria's economy is resilient and set to grow in the first half of 2026 despite the Iran war, the World Bank said on ...

Nigeria plans to lift 50 million people out of poverty within five years; one of the most ambitious targets in its poverty reduction programmes. This raises a deeper question: what does it mean to end ...

Background Tobacco use imposes significant economic burden, particularly in low and middle-income countries, diverting ...

The federal government has unveiled a sweeping reform of Nigeria's humanitarian and poverty reduction architecture, adopting a new unified framework aimed at ending years of fragmented interventions ...

Nigeria's government has launched a unified poverty register and a N3.2tn fund to streamline interventions and drive ...

A major new global modeling study led by researchers at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at the University of York ...

The provincial government says it is advancing work on a new 10-year Poverty Reduction and Prevention Strategy, focused on practical, forward-looking solutions to help reduce poverty rates to the ...

A major new global modelling study led by researchers at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at the University of York challenges the international focus on air pollution. Published in The Lancet ...

About 38% of children in London live in relative poverty, compared with 27% in the UK as a whole ...

Bonnie Krysowaty says there were no surprises in this year’s report on poverty in Thunder Bay, Ont., though the number of people struggling to afford the necessities is increasingly concerning. The ...