Urban poverty: World’s slum populations set to surge as housing crisis bites
The UN says three billion people will live in slums by 2050 unless the world tackles poverty and inequality. NITA BHALLA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
UN says about half of Myanmar’s people could sink into poverty in 2022
Reuters Urban poverty is on course to triple in Myanmar, pushing nearly half the population below the poverty line next year, the United Nations said on Wednesday, as the twin impact of the pandemic and a military coup threaten progress made in the past decade. The army seized power from the elected civilian government of […]
Half of Myanmar’s population risks falling into poverty by 2022: UNDP
Reuters The dual impacts of the pandemic and Myanmar’s political crisis triggered by a military coup could result in nearly half the population, or as many as 25 million people, dropping into poverty by 2022, the United Nations Development Programme warns. In a report released on Friday, UNDP said the effect of the crises could […]
ESSAY: URBAN UNREST PROPELS GLOBAL WAVE OF PROTESTS
In an article first published on The Conversation, political scientist HENRY F (CHIP) CAREY, of Georgia State University in the US, looks at the root causes of protests which have broken out in nations across the world…