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Every month, more than two billion people around the world menstruate. Menstruation – or period – is a natural and healthy process, yet millions of women and girls cannot afford …
United Nations Development Programme
Rich countries attain record human development, but half of the poorest have gone backwards: UNDP
Uneven development progress is leaving the poorest behind, exacerbating inequality, and stoking political polarisation on a global scale. …
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Climate change impacts severely impede SDGs: ADB-UN report
The impacts of climate change, including slow and sudden onset weather events, are reducing the ability of countries …
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
New UN report: Along with gender, where people live key factor in determining levels of poverty, inequality in APAC
Progress on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) remains uneven and inadequate across various segments of the population …
All #poverty Press Releases
17 January 2024
World Economic Forum
Top organisations unlock new investments to support world’s most vulnerable
24 October 2023
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
UN forum underscores need for collaborative action to ensure crisis resilient urban futures
24 July 2023
13 July 2023
United Nations Development Programme
25 countries halved multidimensional poverty within 15 years, but 1.1 billion remain poor
5 April 2023
Asian Development Bank
ADB: Philippine economy to post robust growth in 2023, 2024 despite inflation pressures
19 December 2022
International Finance Corporation
IFC, Singapore’s Agrocorp partner to improve food security in Bangladesh
6 December 2022
International Association for Agricultural Sustainability
Agriculture and Halal literacy to the surface: Helping agriculture grow to new heights
10 October 2022
14 September 2022
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and Climate Action Network Southeast Asia (CANSEA)
'Just transition' pushed by experts, activists and sectors amid record floods, droughts in Asia
24 September 2021
International Fund for Agricultural Development
IFAD calls on world leaders for small-scale farmers to receive decent wages
16 June 2021
International Fund for Agricultural Development
Sri Lanka and IFAD partner to reduce poverty and increase food and nutrition security in the face of climate change
18 March 2021
18 November 2020
Fairtrade
More dough for cocoa farmers
18 September 2020
Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia
Building back fairer? Social enterprises show the way
18 August 2020
Asian Development Bank
Report launch: Tackling the Covid-19 youth employment crisis in Asia and the Pacific
30 June 2020
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