poverty

In the township of Mbare, anthropology student Rowan Jones finds a complex picture of poverty and propaganda - plus a baffling level of support for...

We live in an unequal world: each year billions of dollars are directed at reducing some of the gaps between rich and poor, and bringing basic...

A new study reveals how a radical economic policy devised by western economists put former Soviet states on a road to bankruptcy and corruption.

A Cambridge academic’s research into the final days of the Old English Poor Law has thrown up some remarkable parallels to today’s welfare state –...

A new book by a Cambridge University academic revisits one of the worst famines in recorded history. The Irish Famine of the 1840s had terrible...

A group of Cambridge students are spearheading an initiative to create an Entrepreneurship Week in Rwanda to help lift the country out of poverty.

Cambridge researchers are contributing to projects in Bangladesh that aim to lift 1 million people out of poverty by 2015.