Slums and Informal Settlements in Ghana, has once again brought to the fore a critical development issue--the alarming spread of slums across the country.

calling it “a silent war that is decimating families and driving more citizens into poverty.” From slums to suburbs, sugary ...

Latest World Bank figures point to a sharp decline in the ratio of extreme poverty in India. It fell to 5.3% in 2022-23 from 27.1% in 2011-12, with 269 million individuals lifted out of such ...

Labour MPs are obviously going to panic when told their votes might plunge just one person into poverty – let alone 250,000.

Most residents of Nairobi’s slums live in extreme poverty, meaning they exist on just a couple of dollars a day. With such meager earnings, the increasing cost of living in recent years has made life ...

A report by the Ghana Statistical Service revealed that about 4.82 million Ghanaians, roughly 30.8 per cent of the urban population, are living in slums. The figure exceeds the global average of 24.7 ...

By Ruchi Chabra It begins with a whistle. I sit by the window of the train, clutching a lukewarm cup of over-sweet chai. The ...

As Dhaka swelters under record temperatures, women in the city’s poorest neighbourhoods face a brutal, daily struggle—trapped between unpaid care, precarious work, and suffocating heat with no escape ...

Currently, Beyond Uganda is participating in the 24th annual Fred Paxton Challenge for Charities, in which every dollar ...

For more than a decade, I have been researching slums in Nairobi and speaking with low-income residents in the capital. I’ve watched Gen Zers grow up since 2010 when some were just 5 years old ...

A survey of slums in four different-sized cities in Telangana reveals the need to integrate bottom-up approaches in schemes that are currently top-down. Non-economic factors are critically important ...

Statistics can be fairly deceptive. At least, this is suggested by latest estimates released by World Bank, according to which India’s extreme poverty rate dropped to 5.3% in 2022-23 from 27.1% ...