The U.S. is by far the biggest single donor of foreign assistance in the world through the agency known as USAID, which ...

Africa is experiencing a troubling surge in severe lived poverty, reversing hard-won gains from the past two decades, according to a new report.

In a one-room clinic in rural Madagascar, a wide-eyed baby boy named Mercia watched as his mother tore open a packet of something that looked like peanut butter. Mercia devoured the paste, leaving ...

The scheme was launched to reduce poverty, but experts never anticipated the remarkable effects it would have on the ...

Social Security is helping more than just older adults as more children start to live with their grandparents.

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican's charity voiced outrage Monday at what it called the “reckless” and “unhuman” U.S. plans to gut USAID, with Pope Francis’ point-man on development aid insisting that the ...

SYDNEY -- Australia's homelessness services have reported a major surge in demand for assistance amid the country's housing ...

Poverty has many dimensions. Following recent crises, not least the COVID-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis, some of poverty's known dimensions have evolved while new forms have emerged.