The global community could slash poverty in Asia at the click of a finger ... potentially millions of foreign workers returning home, Nepal could be on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe.

Describing Nepal as a “beautiful and uniquely spiritual,” Lifshitz also said that “misery here is enormous,” with “whole villages wiped off the map.” While some roads are blocked ...

Therefore, the scientists mapped those dimmer parts of the map at night with daytime photos ... this method is 81 percent more effective at predicting poverty in an area under the poverty line ...

What is currently known about how countries' choices of macroeconomic policies affect their incidences of poverty, and what are the most promising directions for further investigation of this ...