poverty

The Covid-19 pandemic – or, as some say, rather government-imposed restrictions in response to it – has increased poverty and dealt a blow to...

Only "essential" movements in public are allowed for two weeks The economic outlook for the Philippine’s capital region...

Remittances of overseas Lao workers to their home country are projected to decline by about 50 per...

The set-up of automatic dispensing machine providing free rice in Vietnam – originally a measure to help...

A United Nations human rights expert has urged communist-ruled Laos to focus less on foreign-invested dam and railway contracts...

Thailand has overtaken Russia and India as the most unequal country in the latest survey by Credit Suisse. Two years ago, Thailand ranked third...

Indonesia’s national development planning ministry is targeting a national poverty rate next year of 8.5 per cent to 9.5 per cent, down from the...

Inequality got a new meaning in Indonesia with the release of a recent country study on Indonesia by non-governmental organisation Oxfam that determined that...

Indonesia's Central Statistics Agency (BPS) announced on July 18 that the percentage of the Indonesian population living below the poverty line decreased by 2.11...

Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte will finally be inaugurated on June 30 amid high expectations among his voters that we would live up to his...

Singapore, one of the richest countries in Asia and among the top ten most expensive places to live globally, offers one more pastime for...

The World Bank in the latest of its half-yearly East Asia and Pacific Economic Update reports released in October documents a rapid decline in...

When Marc walks out of his Makati neighborhood, a cramped warren of squat slum dwellings in West Rembo, the view he sees could not...

Some 95 per cent of adults in Myanmar live on under $10 a day, with 10 per cent preferring to save money in gold...

The Philippine government on April 14 announced plans to spend more on infrastructure and introduce other reforms to try to lift millions out of...

The Philippines will have to downgrade its target to reduce poverty, officials warned March 18, a move which would leave an additional four million...

Microfinance institutions in Myanmar are worried a new directive by the sector’s regulator that caps loans at 500,000 kyat (nearly $500) could stifle small...

Cambodia's 38 microfinance institutions reported a 44 per cent increase in loan disbursements in 2013, according to a report of the National Bank of...