As Sudan’s civil conflict enters its third year, health conditions have sharply deteriorated as the collapse of the food systems in Sudan has overwhelmed them. The country is currently facing the world’s largest hunger crisis, with 24.6 million individuals experiencing food insecurity. The civil war has devastated the Sudanese economy, agricultural livelihoods and food markets, […]
The story of Ukrainian refugees shows how migration can generate not just financial assistance, but also the transfer of ideas, skills and civic values. These “social remittances” can help Ukraine recover from war, resist aggression and build an economy less vulnerable to poverty. Remittances, sums of money sent to another place, are often a way […]
In Chad, thousands of girls as young as 14 years old are pressured to leave education behind and marry before reaching adulthood. Girls Not Brides underlined that in 2019, nearly 61% of Chadian women between the ages of 20 and 24 were married before their 18th birthday. While child marriage rates remain high in the […]
Mali has a complicated relationship with recurring challenges such as climate crisis’ and conflict-driven violence. Whether it be due to the shocks of extreme heat and floods, or the violence from armed forces within different villages, USAID programs in Mali have benefited Malians greatly, with more than a third of the population being in need […]
Poverty drives child marriage as families use the practice to escape their poor economic situation. Large families feel the burden of poverty to a greater extent, with many regarding underage marriages as a tool to decrease the burden of families that are unable to take care of their children. People often use underage marriages as […]
In spite of its position as one of the European Union’s biggest economies, poverty is still a significant issue in Spain. In 2023, there were 20.4% of people, according to data from the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE), who lived under the poverty line or were subject to social exclusion. Among these include low-income […]
Syria has been engulfed in a civil war since the Arab Spring of 2011, eventually culminating in the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024; however, despite the collapse of the dictatorship, conflict has labored on, and the poverty rate refuses to budge. As it currently stands, 90% of Syrians are impoverished, surviving on […]
Kazakhstan is a large Central Asian country, bordering Russia at its north, and Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan at its south. It is a developing country, and international aid plays a large part in disease control. HIV/AIDS in Kazakhstan has been a growing problem for years. A combination of domestic and international aid has been successfully active […]
Paraguay has made remarkable progress in cutting poverty over the past two decades. According to the World Bank Group, the country’s poverty rate fell from 51.4% in 2003 to 24.7% in 2022. Social entrepreneur Martin Burt has been among the leading figures in creating innovations to reduce poverty in Paraguay. This success comes despite continuous […]
Historically, in 74 countries, women have been confined to the four walls of their homes, limiting their activities to the domestic sphere. Azerbaijan is one of them. For decades, laws barred women from participating in the workforce, with 674 occupations exclusively reserved for men. For instance, regulations prohibited women from laying asphalt, working as train […]
