Did you know that, in the past thirty years, the percentage of people in the world who live in extreme poverty has decreased by more than half? If...
When the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, the newly independent nation of Ukraine faced numerous challenges: Between 1991 and 1997, Ukraine lost sixty percent of its GDP, inflation...
In the 1990s, the World Bank surveyed over sixty thousand of the financially poor throughout the developing world and asked how they described poverty. What surprised me was...
America’s unofficial poverty program for most of the nation’s history could be called, in a word, “liberty.” In spite of a horrendous civil war, half a dozen economic...
Economists at the Brookings Institute bring the happy news that the United Nations’ goal to reduce the number of people in extreme poverty by fifty percent by 2015...
How do well-enforced property rights affect the poor? In a video produced by the International Justice Mission, one Ugandan woman explains, In this part of the country, land...
In his recent Gates Foundation’s annual letter Bill Gates makes the shocking prediction that, “By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.” What...
“Who’s looking after the poor when the machete is coming after them?” Gary Haugen, President and CEO of International Justice Mission (IJM), asked this question in a live...
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Why Extreme Poverty Will Not Always Be with Us
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation released its 2014 Annual Report last week. In it, Bill and Melinda Gates outline and challenge three myths about global poverty. The...